Yes. Rachel is the younger daughter of Laban in Genesis, the wife Jacob loved and for whom he served her father fourteen years, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. Her Hebrew name, Raḥel, means “ewe.” She died giving birth to Benjamin near Bethlehem, and the prophet Jeremiah later pictures her “weeping for her children” (Jeremiah 31:15). Who was Rachel in the Bible? Rachel enters the story at a well near Haran, where she comes with her father’s sheep, “for…

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