Examples of using "Raquel" in a sentence and their english translations:
And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.
And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.
And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice wept.
But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.
And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca:
The Lord, also remembering Rachel, heard her and opened her womb.
And again Bala conceived, and bore another, for whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.
So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.
Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the younger was called Rachel.
And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?
At that time Laban was gone to sheer his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.
He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold, Rachel, his daughter, cometh with his flock.
They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she fed the flock.
And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.
And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.
And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids.
And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.
But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel, to whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.
Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Lia. And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?
And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german, and that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone wherewith the well was closed.
And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.
And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, by reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Canaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.
She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.
So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. An when he was entered into Rachel's tent, she, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them.
But, whereas thou chargest me with theft, with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
And when he had searched all the tent, and founding nothing, she said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.
Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks, and said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me. And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.
Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give you by this young woman."