{"id":2569,"date":"2024-06-26T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bibleverses.guide\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:48:23","slug":"rachels-story-watching-loved-ones-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibleverses.guide\/rachels-story-watching-loved-ones-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel’s Story – Watching Loved Ones Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Things Aren’t Meant To Be Shared – Rachel’s Story<\/h2>\n

God calls us to share our talents, our material possessions, and our time with others. What he doesn’t require us to share is our spouse. Marriage is meant for one man and one woman for life.<\/p>\n

Rachel’s Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once Jacob had cheated his brother out of his birthright, Rebekah decided it would be best if Jacob left for a while so she sent him to her ‘hometown’ to find a wife.<\/p>\n

It’s safe to say that God wasn’t pleased with Rebekah and Jacob, but the Bible tells us that God specifically chose Rachel to be Jacob’s wife.<\/p>\n

Jacob and Rachel quickly fell in love, but her father wasn’t nearly as quick to agree.<\/p>\n

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He finally consented on the condition that Jacob stay and work for him for seven years. Love won out, Jacob agreed, and when the wedding day finally came, Rachel’s father, Laban, tricked the happy couple by putting his older daughter, Leah, in Rachel’s place.<\/p>\n

Hmm, did someone say payback?<\/p>\n

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.” So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her.<\/p>\n

And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant. When morning came, there was Leah!<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

Jacob was very angry and demanded that Laban give him Rachel as his wife. Laban did after he spent a honeymoon-like period with Leah. Oh, and he had to agree to:<\/p>\n