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• Rachel and Leah

  Rachel and Leah are the two daughters of Laban in the Book of Genesis. The sisters both became wives of Jacob and the mothers of the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Bilhah

  Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid in the Book of Genesis and a wife (concubine) of Jacob. She bore Dan and Naphtali, the ancestors of the tribes of Dan and Naphtali among the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)

  Joseph is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, he rose to become the country's chief administrator and saved his family during a famine. He is distinct from Joseph of Nazareth, the legal father of Jesus.

• Edith Schaeffer

  Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) was an American missionary and Christian author. With her husband, Francis Schaeffer, she founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland in 1955.

• Benjamin

  Benjamin was the second son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons. He was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Dan (Son of Jacob)

  Dan was a son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Dan, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. His name is understood to mean "to judge" or "to vindicate."

• Naphtali

  Naphtali was the son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Naphtali, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribe's territory lay in the region of Galilee.

• Genesis 30

  Genesis 30 recounts how Jacob's wives, Rachel and Leah, compete to bear sons, even giving their maidservants to Jacob, and several children are born, including Joseph. It also tells how Jacob settles his wages with Laban and grows wealthy through his flocks.

• Ephrath

  Ephrath (Ephratah) is an ancient name for Bethlehem of Judah or its surrounding region. Scripture mentions it as Rachel's burial place, as the hometown of David's family, and, in the Book of Micah, as the place from which a ruler would come forth.

• Laban

  Laban was an Aramean of Haran who appears in the book of Genesis. The brother of Rebekah, the uncle of Jacob, and the father of Leah and Rachel, he housed Jacob for twenty years.

• Teraphim

  Teraphim are household idols mentioned in the Old Testament, generally thought to have been venerated in the home or used for divination. They appear in the accounts of Rachel and Michal and are condemned as a form of idolatry in the prophetic and legal traditions.

• Genesis 29

  Genesis 29 tells how Jacob, after arriving in Haran, serves his uncle Laban seven years for Rachel, is deceived into marrying Leah first, and agrees to serve another seven years. The chapter closes with Leah bearing four sons.

• Genesis 35

  In this chapter Jacob puts away the foreign idols in his household, goes up to Bethel, builds an altar, and is again given the name Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and the chapter continues with a list of Jacob's twelve sons and closes with the death of Isaac.

• Bethlehem

  Bethlehem is a biblical town in the hill country of Judah, south of Jerusalem. It was the hometown of David, and the New Testament records it as the birthplace of Jesus. Its name is commonly interpreted as "house of bread."

• Tribe of Benjamin

  The tribe of Benjamin was one of the tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob. Israel's first king, Saul, and the apostle Paul both came from this tribe.

• Tribe of Dan

  The tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Dan, the son of Jacob. Unable to hold the territory it was first allotted, it migrated north and settled there.

• Issachar

  Issachar was a son of Jacob and Leah. His name became the name of the tribe of Issachar, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Mandrake

  The mandrake (Korean *hapwanchae*) is the plant that Reuben found in the field and gave to Leah in Genesis 30; it also appears in Song of Solomon 7. It is commonly identified with the Mediterranean mandrake (*Mandragora*).

• Reuben

  Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Reuben, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Scripture records that he lost his position as firstborn because he lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine.

• Midwife

  A midwife is a woman who assists another woman in childbirth. In the Bible, midwives appear in Genesis and Exodus. They are best known through the account of Shiphrah and Puah, who defied Pharaoh's order and saved the lives of Hebrew baby boys.