Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.

Following the example of Sarah, who gave her handmaid to Abraham after years of infertility, Rachel gave Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, in marriage so that Rachel could raise children through her.

God remembered Rachel, who gave birth to Joseph and Benjamin.

Jacob then made a further move while Rachel was pregnant ; near Bethlehem, Rachel went into labor and died as she gave birth to her second son, Benjamin ( Jacob's twelfth son ).

Rachel therefore gave Leah the signs so that Jacob would not realize the switch.

A generous donor was found in the persons of David Murphy and his wife Rachel, who by deed dated September 2, 1822 "..... gave as a donation to the County of St. Francois, upon which to fix the county seat, fifty two acres of land ...”

The mystery of what Blake did while in his drugged state is solved: he encountered Ablewhite in the passageway outside Rachel's room and gave the Moonstone to him to be put back in his father's bank, from which it had been withdrawn on the morning of the party to be given to Rachel.

In 1968 she gave birth to her only child, Rachel, fathered by Irish Times journalist Terence de Vere White.

He was taken into captivity but redeemed by Laban, Rachel and Leah's father, and he gave Ahotay a wife named Hannah, who was their mother.

In 1962 the publication of Silent Spring by long-time Audubon member Rachel Carson gave the campaign against " persistent pesticides " a huge national forum.

Delestre-Poirson, the director, gave her the stage name Rachel, a name that she chose to keep in her private life.

She later toured with Peter Gabriel during his Growing Up tours from 2002 to 2006, which gave Rachel the opportunity to widen her fan base and work with renowned bassist Tony Levin.

Rachel Solomon gave birth to her fourth child three months after her husband's death and named the baby Haym M. Salomon.

The second season also gave more screentime to Rachel Blanchard, who only had minor play in the first season.

On 19 May 1992 at the age of 19, Natalie gave birth to her daughter Rachel by her first husband.

For example, the biblical Rachel, the childless wife of Jacob, gave her handmaid Bilhah to her husband to produce children.

He was more popular in Jülich-Berg, where he erected impressive buildings such as the Schloss Bensberg and led a lavish court which gave work to many artists and artisans, including the court painters Johannes Spilberg, his daughter Adriana, her later husband Eglon van der Neer, Adriaen van der Werff, Jan Frans van Douven, Herman van der Mijn, Jan van Nickelen, his daughter Jacoba Maria van Nickelen, her husband Willem Troost, Rachel Ruysch, Godfried Schalcken and Jan Weenix.

On a rainy night on Earth, the elderly Jake Sisko ( Tony Todd ) is visited by an aspiring novelist Melanie ( Rachel Robinson ), who is curious to learn why Jake gave up writing after publishing two successful books.

:* Detective Anna Ramirez-Played by Monique Curnen, she is a corrupt cop-although she only gave in to the mob's demands to pay her sick mother's hospital bills rather than out of more selfish motives -, involved in the scarring of Harvey Dent and the death of Rachel Dawes by the Joker.

Since having children in Judaism was considered a great blessing, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands so they could have children with them when those women themselves where childless, normally because of infertility issues as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar ; Leah and Zilpah ; and Rachel and Bilhah.

Rachel steered me along toward a school for young boys beginning to study the Torah.

Rachel had seen me watching the young man.

Rachel followed, looked at me, and clucked with her tongue.

Rachel faced me.

Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

Rachel says " We can start a new group, you and me, we're the best ones ," to which Phoebe responds " Okay.

On Season 3 of True Blood, The Vampire Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne LeClerq ( Evan Rachel Wood ) is having fun with lottery tickets, wins another hundred dollars and yells for her human Hadley to " Run down to Circle-K and get me another hundred of these.

Afterwards, he turned to setting up the survival-instruction business that he still runs with Rachel, his partner of 10 years, whom he met on one of his courses and whose nearly grown children he helped to raise when he wasn't traveling (' Rachel's older than me: I won't have children of my own ,' he states with resigned finality ).

Part three describes the Stuckists ' line of argument as " devastating in its capacity to demolish the pretensions of Conceptualism " and cites Damien Hirst's observation that " The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel " ( one of Hirst's assistants ).

TX486 -- Screamin ' Rachel " Don't make me lonely "

Rachel Corrie was a US citizen allegedly killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) while involved in direct action ( based on the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi ) to prevent demolition of the home of local Palestinian pharmacist Samir Nasrallah.

" He went on to direct two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and seven episodes of the courtroom drama Judging Amy, where his daughter Rachel Robinson played a recurring character.

He directed Richard Burton's first U. S. film, My Cousin Rachel, and then was given the first CinemaScope film to direct, The Robe in 1952.

The names Perceval and Peredur are not alike, but Rachel Bromwich has suggested that Perceval is to be understood as only a " loose approximation " of the Welsh name, in much the same way as Gauvain and Guenievre are literary French garbles of – rather than direct loans from – Gwalchmai and Gwenhwyfar.

Soon after the election, Rachel dies after asking Peggy to look after Jackson.

Rachel decides to stay with Ned instead of going to a motel, but leaves after being horrified when Ned's obsession with making Rachel look like his deceased wife, Maude leads to him cutting Rachel's hair into a Maude-esque style while she's sleeping.

At the beginning of the third season ( 1996 ) Aniston switched to a more traditional long-haired look, but The Rachel remains popular.

It eventually comes to light that her soon to be ex-husband has been having an affair with her best friend, and that they paid a man, Patrick, to pose as Angus in order to cause an already emotionally unstable Rachel to act crazy enough in public that, when they make her murder look like a suicide, no one will suspect foul play.

( It was previously written on a slate, " don't forget, look behind you " and Rachel heard her son repeating those lines in water ).

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

And like Jo March, who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself, Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max Lobl, a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi.

Rachel wore a smart hat and, because she had been warned recently about smoking, puffed at her cigarettes through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick.

Teachers -- men who wore brown suits and had gray hair and pleasant smiles -- came to their table to talk shop and to be introduced to Scotty and Rachel.

Rachel was polite, Scotty indifferent.

`` He's all right, Craig '', Rachel said.

Rachel had little to say.

Rachel said, `` I'd better get him to bed ''.

Since Mr. McKinley had to give a lecture, Rachel and Scotty drove home alone in the Plymouth.

Rachel had to bend toward Scotty and ask him to repeat.

He rose late and went down in his bathrobe and slippers to have breakfast either alone or with Rachel.

Rachel, observing, would say, `` He has to rediscover his own capacity.

Virginia and Rachel talked to each other quietly now, as allies who are political rather than natural might in a war atmosphere.

Both watched Scotty constantly, Rachel without seeming to, Virginia openly, her eyes filled with concern.

Rachel mentioned Kate.

He turned unsmilingly to Rachel.

Rachel stayed on after the doctor had gone.

He had noticed how formal and irritably exact Rachel had grown.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

This time Rachel kissed him lightly on the forehead.

Riverboat ( Dalzell-Cousin Rachel ) has gone in 2:38.

Rachel Peden.