Jacob meant to marry her, non Leah, however was tricked by Laban. Jacob accepted this & persevered, working some other septet years for Laban to procure his chosen bride too (watch Genesis 29). So, unable to conceive for several years when her older sister wore Jacob quatern sons, she offered her handmaid Bilhah to her husb& when was a custom, and known as them sons she wore, indicating it were to exist as her heirs. However eventually, fallowing Leah produced some other 2 sons & the girl, & Leah's handmaid Zilpah another deuce sons, Rachel herself wore two sons, anxious following of the hard birth of the 2nd.

Rachel's Tomb, located between Bethlehem and the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, is an important religious site for Jewish women, especially those with fertility problems.

Around Jeremiah 31:15 the prophet speaks of 'Rachel weeping for her babies' (KJV): This is interpreted inside Judaism as Rachel crying for her descendants' sufferings & exiles ensuing a destruction of the First Temple in ancient Jerusalem. Judaism does not record any "slaughter" of "Hebrew babies" at that instance, when Judaism's Torah teaches in the book of Exodus that it was the Egyptian Pharaoh who issued a order that Hebrew male baexist as be drowned when you took a period of the birth of Moses, the true redeemer of the Jews.

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