Daily Scripture
Mat. 22:36-40
Mat 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Mat 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Snippets
Rachel is the sister of Leah. Her name means to journey. She is the younger daughter of Laban and the second wife of Jacob. She was a beautiful young lady. When Jacob met her, he was so madly in love that he arranged to work seven years for her hand in marriage. At the end of the seven years of servitude, her father Laban gave him his older daughter named Leah, to be his wife instead of Rachel. Jacob was so heartbroken that he agreed to work another seven years for the hand of Rachel. Now Jacob has two wives. Leah is his first wife, but he loves Rachel more than Leah. Leah was fertile, but Rachel was barren for many years. Because she could not conceive children, she gave her handmaiden named Bilhah to Jacob to have children through her. In the latter years, God opened her womb, and Rachel gave birth to her first son named Joseph. She later gave birth to a second son named Benjamin, but she died in childbirth, and Jacob buried her near Bethlehem.