Genesis 29:16
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
KJV
Habebat vero duas filias : nomen majoris Lia, minor vero appellabatur Rachel.
Vulgate
τῷ δὲ Λαβὰν ἦσαν δύο θυγατέρες· ὄνομα τῇ μείζονι Λεία, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ νεωτέρᾳ Ῥαχήλ.
LXX
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
ASV
וּ/לְ/לָבָ֖ן שְׁתֵּ֣י בָנ֑וֹת שֵׁ֤ם הַ/גְּדֹלָה֙ לֵאָ֔ה וְ/שֵׁ֥ם הַ/קְּטַנָּ֖ה רָחֵֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
גָּד֖וֹל
gdvl
verb · 528×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
לֵאָ֔ה
l'h
proper_noun · 34×
לָבָ֖ן
lbn
proper_noun · 55×
קָּטֹ֖ן
qtn
adjective · 101×
רָחֵ֖ל
rchl
proper_noun · 47×
שְׁתֵּ֣י
shty
adjective · 765×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 29:17 — Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
- Gen 29:25 — And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
- Gen 30:19 — And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
- Gen 31:4 — And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
- Gen 35:23 — The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- Gen 46:15 — These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
- Gen 49:31 — There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
- Ruth 4:11 — And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Isra