Leah From Genesis 29: 1-35.

Leah is mentioned in Genesis 29:1-35. She is the daughter of Laban and sister to Rachel. She also one of Jacob’s wives, with her sister. Her story is somewhat of a depressing one, but one that we all can learn from. It is a story of depiction and feeling unloved and unwanted. She also has a very interesting connection to Mary. Her story begins actually with Jacob. Jacob comes to the land of the Kedemites, and he comes across a well. The well had a large stone covering the mouth of it. The stone was very heavy and took all of the shepherds to move. He begins to talk to the shepherds, and they help him find his family member, Laban the son of Nahor. They also introduced him to Rachel. Jacob tells the shepherds to give their sheep water, but the shepherds tell him they can’t for obvious reasons. Rachel, Leah’s sister, arrives when this is happening and her beauty inspires Jacob to move the stone himself. He then proceeds to kiss Rachel and tell her that he is son of Rebekah, Laban’s sister. Rachel takes Jacob to her home. Her father is so thrilled to see Jacob that he runs out to greet him. Laban welcomes Jacob into his home. Jacob stays with him for a full month. Jacob now meets Leah. Leah was dull, while her sister, Rachel was beautiful and …show more content…
They are both called to do something difficult, and they follow obediently. They rejoiced to God for most of their adult life, knowing that they would suffer. They were also taken by their husbands because of unexpected reason. Both of them had lots of doubts with marrying their wifes. In the beginning, Jacob was angry that he had married Leah, but Jacob realizes that he was deceived and now it was his duty to take care of Leah.Joseph didn’t want to marry Mary, due to the fact that she was pregnant out of wedlock. He was kind enough to do it privately, so she would get stoned, but in the end, Joseph married Mary because an angel appeared in a dream to tell