“OLD TESTAMENT RACHEL”
(mother of ‘old testament joseph’ (+ ‘benjamin’))
(second wife of ‘jacob’)
(the younger sister of jacob’s first wife ‘leah’)
(‘rachel’ was jacob’s favorite wife)
(and he preferred her from the outset)
(but laban somehow ‘tricked’ hi into marrying the oder sister ‘leah’)
(jacob’s mother was ‘rebecca’)
(wife of ‘isaac’)
(rebecca’s brother was ‘laban’)
(‘laban’ was the father of ‘rachel’ + ‘leah’)
(making ‘jacob’ + ‘rachel’ first cousins)
(much like ‘abraham’ and his ‘half-sister sara’)
(‘jacob’ had to work for his (maternal) uncle ‘laban’ for ‘7 years’ before he could ask for his permission to marry one of his ‘daughters’)
(‘jacob’s cousins’)
(jacob’s older twin brother ‘esau’)
(his father isaac’s favorite son)
(as ‘jacob’ was rebecca’s favorite son)
“the elder shall serve the younger”
“jacob was a simple man, dwelling in tents…”
“while his brother esau was out ‘hunting’…”
(esau sold his ‘birthright’ to jacob for a simple bowl of stew!)
(after a hard day hunting deer)
“that same red pottage…”
“red”
“what a dope!”
(‘jacob’ was 77 years old)
(‘rachel’ was ’14’)
(“…and he loved her immediately…”)
(o he had to work for her father for 7 years before he could marry her)
(so ‘jacob’ was celibate until ‘age 84’)
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(***BACK TO “RACHEL″ (THE FEMALE FIRST NAME)***)
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*TABLE OF CONTENTS*
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*”WE WON THE WAR”*
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