Leah was unloved. Rachel was clearly Jacob’s favorite. The problem was that while Leah was fertile, Rachel was barren. To solve this issue, Rachel gives Jacob her slave Bilhah. This prompted Leah to give Jacob her slave Zilpah. Throughout this whole race to have kids though, both women were more focused on their own competition than the precious gifts of children that God had given them. Today on “In Need of a Refill,” Kevin Smith looks at Genesis 29 and Genesis 30 to talk about Leah and Rachel’s “Unhealthy Competition and Misplaced Focus.”
