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Jacob And His Wives Analysis

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Jacob and his wives' relationship depends on the woman because he loves Rachel and Leah in a different way to show what they do for him. While the other two are just for child birth or as a duty as Jacob described it. There relationship would be affected if Jacob found out about their polytheistic religion because he only wants them follow to his monotheistic religion and no other because he could punished them for not following his orders. It is true that there is jealousy between the wives because they all sleep with the same man. However, that jealousy is gone once Rachel has her own son and she doesn't have to be jealous of Leah's ten births because she finally received her own. Jacob is still angry that Laban gets credit for all of his

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