Why did Jacob marry Leah?

Non-Christian Answer In Genesis chapters 28 and 29, Jacob loved Rachel but her father said that he must first marry Leah, before he could have her younger sister, Rachel. Jacob served seven years for Leah and another seven years for Rachel, who became his second wife. However, this question was asked as a "Regional Religions" question and we should therefore look beyond the Bible to the regional religions to find the real, underlying story of Leah and Rachel In the regional Semitic languages, Leah means "Wild Cow" and we find in Genesis that she was "tender-eyed".

Rachel means "Ewe". Of course, Ewe and Wild Cow are also improbable names in the modern context, particularly as we think that Labon could not have predicted that Leah really would grow up to have at least one physical attribute of a cow. Certainly, the wild cow and the ewe were symbols of fertility, but there was more to it than that Archaeological inscriptions from the region should put this in perspective: they refer to the moon god as a ferocious bull and depict him with crescent-shaped horns and a long, flowing beard.In the Middle Eastern regional religions of remote antiquity, the moon god was symbolised at times by a golden calf, at times by a ferocious bull.

The planet Venus, symbol of beauty and fertility, was symbolised by a wild cow or a ewe The moon god was the father of Venus, and we find that the biblical father of Leah and Rachel was called Labon, which means 'white' or 'bright', and in the Hebrew language was associated with Lebanah the moon. The eternal cycle of the Heavenly Hosts also had the moon god marry Venus. Since Venus was represented both by Leah and by Rachel, he had to marry both of them.

Notice that seven days (years) is roughly one phase of the moon. Long afterwards, the story of Jacob was handed down in garbled form to the biblical author, who was, of course, unaware of the symbolism of this already ancient story Answer Jacob didn't know he was marrying Leah. S arrangement with Labon was to labor for Rachel, whom he loved.

Labon, being a deceiver already knew what he was doing to Jacob when they made this verbal contract--it was custom that the older daughter marry before the younger, so unless Leah got married to someone eles within that 7 year period, she was going to be Jacobs wife. Also, in their culture once you had sex with someone they are automatically you husband/wife. After Jacob had worked his 7 years for Laban there was a feast for his wedding ceremony.

Just like lots of functions held today there was plenty of alcohol invovled. At the end of the feast he (Laban, her father) took Leah to Jacob and told her to lay with him. Jacob being already intoxicated laid with her thinking it was Rachel.

Custom at that time the bride would come to the tent (which was dark) and she would have on a veil over her face. I'd like to assume that Rachel and Leah were of the same body type since Jacob couldn't tell the difference OR that he was just really really drunk. Either way, Jacob came to the realization that it was not Rachel when he woke up the next morning and went to Labon concerning the matter.

Hope this helps! :-).

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