Genesis 30:15
30:15 But Leah replied,
“Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?” “All right,”
Rachel said, “he may sleep
with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30:1
30:1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children or I’ll die!”
Genesis 1:6-8
1:6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.
1:7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Malachi 2:15
2:15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this.
What did our ancestor
do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.