Group members: Shawn Corbett, Katie Sadis and Juanita Mckoy

Facts

• Rachel is jealous that she didn’t bear Jacob any children.
• Rachel is mad with Jacob that she as had no children. She is blaming Jacob like he is God
• Jacob gets mad with Rachel because she is trying to make him responsible for something that he has no control.
• She gives Jacob her maid, Bilhah, in order to have a child.
• Bilhah gives birth to a man whom Rachel takes as her own and names Dan.
• Bilhah then has a second child name Naphtali and Rachel exclaims that she has faced her sister and won
• Leah then gave Jacob her maid with which he had 2 sons
• Leah also gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob in order to have more children. Zilpah had two sons named Gad and Asher.
• Leah believes that she had her six son because of the dowry of mandrakes (Dowry means property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage)
• Leah then bought a night with Jacob for mandrakes, where she proceeded to bear a 5th and 6th son for him, as well as a daughter
• Leah 5^th and 6^thsons are Issachar and Zebulun. Her daughter name is Dinah.
• Rachel is blessed with her own child now named Joseph
• God then blessed Rachel with another son for Jacob by “opening her womb”
• Rachel then speaks about another child that will come some.
• Jacob wanted to be able to provide for his family.
• Jacob then asks for freedom from Laban, who tricks Jacob by preventing him from taking his pay of the goats and lambs.
• Jacob conceived a plan to help the flock breed that, which was his payment.
• He becomes very rich

observations

These are things that happened to Jacob and his family. Jacob was made to deceive his father to get a blessing. But look what happened to Jacob he was deceived by his father-in-law with Leah and not Rachel. Look what happened to Leah for listening she was unloved no matter what she tried (or how many children she was able to have. So because Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah god didn’t allow her to have children for some years. This only made Rachel very jealous of her sister even though Rachel still had more than Leah but couldn’t see (the love of her husband Jacob). Laban taking the flock out before Jacob only hurt him in the end because Jacob came up with a way to get his flock and be rich off of Laban. Jacob means heel catcher, supplanter, cheater, defrauder, and deceiver.

To me it seems like whatever you are named that is what you will be or will be like in some way.  Look because of what Jacobs name means that is what he is called. It also seems like he is called by the meaning of his name even when he does good. As to say it doesn’t matter. It is something how Leah has to demand Jacob to come to bed with her like she is not his wife. Because Leah said to Jacob you must come to bed with me. 

Ideas

Rachel has been looking also to magic and not just god. Is this true because of what the dictionary has to say about mandrakes. She was worshiping more then one good. Just like her father. The father uses divination. Divination is like insight. Now i don’t know about this but why does Rachel want these Mandrakes.

 some thing for a thesis:

God used all the events or things that Laban, Reahel and leah did thru out this chapter; to prove to jacob that he is a god that keeps his promises. Everything was used the good the bad and the ugly.