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OET (OET-RV) Le’ah had pretty eyes, but Rahel was extremely beautiful in every way.
OET-LV And_eyes of_Lēʼāh [were]_weak and_Rāḩēl she_was beautiful of_form and_beautiful_of of_appearance.
UHB וְעֵינֵ֥י לֵאָ֖ה רַכּ֑וֹת וְרָחֵל֙ הָֽיְתָ֔ה יְפַת־תֹּ֖אַר וִיפַ֥ת מַרְאֶֽה׃ ‡
(vəˊēynēy lēʼāh rakkōt vərāḩēl hāyətāh yəfat-toʼar viyfat marʼeh.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT And the eyes of Leah were delicate, but Rachel was lovely of form and beautiful of appearance.
UST Leah had pretty eyes, but Rachel was extremely beautiful in every way.
BSB Leah had weak eyes,[fn] but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
29:17 Or had delicate eyes
OEB Leah’s eyes were dull, but Rachel was beautiful.
WEB Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
WMB (Same as above)
NET Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)
LSV and the eyes of Leah [are] tender, and Rachel has been beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance.
FBV Leah had kind[fn] eyes, but Rachel had a shapely figure and beautiful looks.
29:17 “Kind”: literally, “soft” or “gentle.”
T4T Leah had pretty eyes, but Rachel had a very attractive figure and was beautiful.
LEB Now the eyes of Leah were dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
BBE And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.
MOF No MOF GEN book available
JPS And Leah's eyes were weak; but Rachel was of beautiful form and fair to look upon.
ASV And Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
DRA But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.
YLT and the eyes of Leah [are] tender, and Rachel hath been fair of form and fair of appearance.
DBY And the eyes of Leah were tender; but Rachel was of beautiful form and beautiful countenance.
RV And Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
WBS Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.
KJB-1769 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
KJB-1611 Leah was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautiful and well fauoured.
(Leah was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.)
BB Lea was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautifull and well fauoured.
(Lea was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautifull and well favoured.)
GNV And Leah was tender eyed, but Rahel was beautifull and faire.
CB And Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beutyfull & well fauoured of face,
(And Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beutyfull and well favoured of face,)
WYC but Lya was blere iyed, Rachel was of fair face, and semeli in siyt.
LUT Aber Lea hatte ein blödes Gesicht; Rahel war hübsch und schön.
(But Lea had a blödes Gesicht; Rahel was hübsch and schön.)
CLV Sed Lia lippis erat oculis: Rachel decora facie, et venusto aspectu.
(But Lia lippis was oculis: Rachel decora facie, and venusto aspectu. )
BRN And the eyes of Lea were weak. But Rachel was beautiful in appearance, and exceedingly fair in countenance.
BrLXX Οἱ δὲ ὀφθάλμοὶ Λείας, ἀσθενεῖς· Ῥαχῆλ δὲ ἦν καλὴ τῷ εἴδει, καὶ ὡραία τῇ ὄψει σφάδρα.
(Hoi de ofthalmoi Leias, astheneis; Ɽaⱪaʸl de aʸn kalaʸ tōi eidei, kai hōraia taʸ opsei sfadra. )
29:14-30 Jacob’s joyful prospect of marriage to the lovely Rachel became an occasion for Laban’s shrewdness and Jacob’s discipline. Jacob and his mother had deceived his father and brother to gain the blessing; now his mother’s brother deceived him. Jacob received a dose of his own duplicity through twenty years of labor, affliction, and deception in Laban’s service (31:38). In God’s justice, people harvest what they plant (Gal 6:7). Laban’s deception was perfectly designed to make Jacob aware of his own craftiness. God often brings people into the lives of believers to discipline them. But Jacob was tenacious, and God blessed him abundantly with a large family and many possessions (30:25-43) during this time of service.
וְעֵינֵ֥י לֵאָ֖ה רַכּ֑וֹת
and,eyes Lēʼāh weak
The Hebrew word for delicate is ambiguous in this context. It can have: (1) a positive meaning of “pretty” or lovely or (2) a negative meaning of “weak”, which implies that Leah’s eyes were plain, dull, or unattractive.
וְרָחֵל֙ הָֽיְתָ֔ה יְפַת תֹּ֖אַר וִיפַ֥ת מַרְאֶֽה
and,Rachel she/it_was beautiful form and,beautiful_of appearance
Alternate translation: “whereas Rachel was extremely beautiful in every way.”
Genesis 21-35
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.