Leah
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Leah appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Israelite patriarch Jacob. She was Jacob's first wife, and the elder sister of his second wife Rachel. Jacob is tricked into marrying Le
Michelangelo's Leah at the tomb of Pope Julius II at San Pietro in Vincoli
Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1855
Tomb of Leah, 1911
Rachel
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Rachel was a Hebrew Bible figure, one of the Israelite matriarchs, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rach
Leah
…Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Israelite patriarch Jacob. She was Jacob's first wife, and the elder sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. Jacob is tricked into marrying Leah by her father, Laban, and subsequently marries Rachel. The narrative states that Leah was "hated" [by Jacob], or…
Rachel and Jacob at the Well by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902)
Fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo of Rachel sitting on the idols (1726–1728)
Rachel's Tomb, near Bethlehem, 1891
Rachel weeping for her children, 14th-century fresco from Marko's Monastery