
Case Study: Rachel and Leah | Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship E8
John Mark Comer Teachings
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A Troop Is Coming and I Can Build a Family Through Her
Jacob said okay another woman to sleep with and slept with her. that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her was a custom not normative but a custom in the ancient Near East so she gave him her servant Bill Ha as a wife. She became pregnant and bore him a son then Rachel said God has vindicated me for he listened to my plea or my prayer and gave me a son because of this she named him Dan which means vindication. Leia saw that she had stopped having children she took her servant Zilpa and gave her to Jacob as a wife not as a servant or a slave but as a wife, it's fascinating.
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