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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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