Holy Scripture
Genesis 29:30
A church father on this verse
“In that journey Jacob took two wives, and those two wives prefigured the two people of the Jews and the Gentiles. For at Christ's coming not a small number even of the Jewish people are read to have believed in him, and again in the Acts of the Apostles there is recorded the fact that on one day three thousand people…”
Source: Septuagint
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30And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served him seven other years.
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28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her sevens; and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to wife.
29And Laban gave to his daughter his handmaid Bilhah, for a handmaid to her.
— Genesis 29:30 —
31And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
32And Leah conceived and bore a son to Jacob; and she called his name, Reuben; saying, Because the Lord has looked on my humiliation, and has given me a son, now then my husband will love me.