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Jacob and Rachel, Francesco Solimena

Genesis 30:14

Francesco Solimena, Jacob and Rachel, c. 1710 · Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice · Public domainFrancesco Solimena, Jacob and Rachel, c. 1710, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

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Genesis 30:14 (WEB)

Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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  • “It was for this reason that Abraham in his old age married Keturah; that Leah hired Jacob with her son’s mandrakes, and that fair Rachel—a type of the church—complained of the closing of her womb.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 14–16.

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