Jesse Tree of Holy Women ~ Rachel

"Drop down dew yet heavens above
and let the clouds rain the just one."
Isaiah 45: 8

"Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and wept aloud." Genesis 9: 11

Rachel was the younger daughter of Laban, Rebekah's brother. When Jacob journeyed to the country of his relatives, he fell in love with Rachel and agreed to work seven years for her, but when his service was completed, her father tricked him into marrying her older sister Leah. Rachel became Jacob's second wife for whom he worked another seven years. Rachel, loved by Jacob, was childless, while Leah gave birth to sons. Rachel gave her maid Belhah to Jacob as a concubine and claimed two sons through her before she herself became pregnant and gave birth to Joseph. She died on the way to Canaan while giving birth to her son Benjamin and was buried near Bethlehem (Woman Word by Miriam Therese Winter).