Leah

In the Book of Genesis, Leah (????? "Weary; tired", Standard Hebrew Le?a, Tiberian Hebrew L???h) is the first wife of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob. Leah means "cow" in Akkadian.

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Book of Genesis - Standard Hebrew - Tiberian Hebrew - Jacob - Akkadian

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Leah is the daughter of Laban (who is the brother of Jacob's mother Rebekah), and older sister of Rachel. In the Genesis account, Jacob marries Leah after being deceived by her father Laban. Jacob having worked seven years for the right to marry his preferred wife Rachel, Laban subsitutes Leah at the wedding ceremony, claiming it to be uncustomary to give the younger daughter away in marriage before the older (Genesis 29:16-30).

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Laban - Rebekah - Rachel

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