Rachel
Sign in to saveRachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother.
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Rachel was a biblical figure who became Jacob's favorite wife and gave birth to Joseph and Benjamin, two of the founders of the twelve tribes of Israel. She matters in religious and cultural history because of her prominent place in the foundational stories of Judaism and Christianity, and because her descendants are considered ancestors of major groups within the Jewish people.
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- Giacobbe e Rachele - Tanzio da Varallo (cropped).png
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- Jacob and Rachel (1625) by Tanzio da Varallo
- Person.name
- Rachel
- Person.birth_place
- Paddan Aram, Aram-Naharaim(present-day Harran, Turkey)
- Person.death_place
- Canaan(present-day Palestine)
- Person.resting_place
- Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem
- Person.spouse
- Jacob
- Person.father
- Laban
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Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother.
==Marriage to Jacob== thumb|Rachel and Jacob at the Well by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902) Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father's flock. She was the second daughter of Laban, Rebekah's brother, making Jacob her first cousin. Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his angry twin brother, Esau.