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What was the relationship between Leah and Rachel?

Leah and Rachel were daughters of Laban, and both were wives of Jacob. Leah was the older. Genesis 29:16, 23, 28

What the Bible says

Genesis 31:14

And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?

Genesis 31:16

But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

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In the Book of Ruth, the people of Bethlehem asked that Ruth be like Rachel and Leah, who built up the house of Israel. Ruth 4:11

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