Leah

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Leah
לֵאָה‎
Michelangelo's Leah at the tomb of Pope Julius II at San Pietro in Vincoli
Born	Paddan Aram, Aram-Naharaim (present-day Harran, Turkey)
Died	Canaan (present-day Israel)
Spouse	Jacob (cousin/husband)
Children	Reuben (son/third and fourth cousin) Simeon (son/third and fourth cousin) Levi (son/third and fourth cousin) Judah (son/third and fourth cousin) Issachar (son/third and fourth cousin) Zebulun (son/third and fourth cousin) Dinah (daughter/third and fourth cousin)
Father	Laban (third cousin)
Relatives	See list Rachel (sister) Esau (cousin/brother-in-law) Rebecca (aunt/mother-in-law) Isaac (father-in-law) Abraham (great-great-granduncle/great-granduncle/grandfather-in-law) Sarah (great-great-grandaunt/great-grandaunt/grandmother-in-law) Bethuel (grandfather/grandfather-in-law)) Dan (third and fourth cousin/stepson) Naphtali (third and fourth cousin/stepson) Gad (third and fourth cousin/stepson) Asher (third and fourth cousin/stepson) Joseph (nephew/third and fourth cousin/stepson) Benjamin (nephew/third and fourth cousin/stepson)

Leah^[a] (/ˈliːə/) appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root (דודאים, dûdâ'îm). Leah gives birth to two more sons after this, Issachar and Zebulun, and to Jacob's only daughter, Dinah.

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