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This week's question:

Jacob was asked by his father to not take a wife from the daughter's of Canaan, but to take one from the daughter's of his wife's brother named Laban, from the lands of the east. While on his way, Jacob met the younger daughter of Laban watering her father's flock. He then kissed her, lifted his voice and wept (Genesis 29:1-11). When he met Laban, they made a pact to have Jacob work seven years for the younger daughter who was described as "beautiful of form and face". While the oldest daughter was described as "eyes were weak" (Genesis 29:12-30). But when the seven years were completed, and the wedding night was over, he woke to find the elder daughter with him instead. Laban explained that it was their custom to marry the older one first, and if he agreed to work another seven years he would also have the younger. So Jacob agreed to work another seven years and was given his true love.

That brings us to our question, "How did Jacob's 'true love' die?". The Lord saw that the older was unloved and He opened her womb and she bore six sons. The younger daughter was barren, so she gave her maid to Jacob who also bore two sons and then the older daughter's maid bore two sons, all by Jacob. Then God remembered the younger daughter, He gave heed to her and her womb was opened and she bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach. She named him Joseph, saying, 'May the Lord give me another son.'" (Genesis 30:23-24).

Now Jacob decided it was time to go back to Canaan and was going to flee before Laban found out for fear he would try to keep his daughters there. The younger daughter stole Laban's idols and hid them in the camel's saddle. Laban caught up with them and charged Jacob for leaving without telling him as well as someone taking his idols. Jacob told him his fear and then said that whoever took his idols would not live, not knowing who had taken them. After a search, he could not find them even after searching his younger daughter's tent, but she was sitting on the camel saddle. Then Laban and Jacob made a pact and he want back home and Jacob continued on his journey (Genesis 31:all). God appeared before Jacob as he came from Paddan-aram and He said to him, "Your name is Jacob, you shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." (Genesis 35:10). Jacob called the place where God spoke to him, Bethel.

So then, for the answer to our question we turn and read, "Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when their was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor. And it came about when she was in severe labor that the midwife said to her, 'Do not fear, for now you have another son.' And it came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni (meaning-the son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (meaning-the son of my right hand). So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is Bethlehem). And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day." (Genesis 35:16-20). So there we have the answer to our question, as Jacob's true love was none other than a beautiful shepherdess named, Rachel, who died giving birth to her second son Benjamin!

Interestingly enough, the Lord remembers Rachel in the scriptures again about other children suffer, who are direct descendants of her and Jacob, as we read, "Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the Magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its environs, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the magi. Then that which was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, 'A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be comforted, because they were no more.'" (Matthew 2:16-18).

For these children who Herod had killed in trying to kill the Messiah, were of the twelve sons representing the twelve tribes of the nation called, Israel!