Genesis - The Sons of Jacob Bible Minibook

After Laban tricked him, Jacob married both Leah and Rachel. (God created marriage to be between one man and one woman. Jacob should not have had more than one wife.) Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, and this made Leah sad.
God blessed Leah with a firstborn son named Reuben. She then had three more sons: Simeon, Levi and Judah.
When Rachel did not have any children, she became upset. She told Jacob, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Have a child with her so it will be as if it were mine.” So Jacob took Bilhah as his wife. She had two sons, Dan and Naphtali.
Since Leah had stopped having children, she gave her maid, Zilpah, to Jacob as a wife. Zilpah had two sons, Gad and Asher.
God then blessed Leah with two more sons: Issachar and Zebulun. She also had a daughter named Dinah.
Later God blessed Rachel with a son named Joseph. Then she had another son named Benjamin.

 

 

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