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The Ugly One!

Read: Genesis 29-16 to 30:24       The bible describes Leah as the weak-eyed or the dull-eyed sister i.e.kind of the ugly one ! !       Genesis 29:16-17 describes Rachel as the beautiful sister and Leah,the dull-eyed one. When The Bible; God-breathed words, didn’t mince words while describing Leah so then obviously,why would people around her be nice!          Leah must be dealing with this comparison all through her childhood. Her family, friends,relatives, neighbours, people …all must have compared her to her sister’s beauty! I can imagine her crying about this in her room.Guests telling Laban,their father, 'your younger one is so beautiful’,in front of Leah.         Even when she became a young adult, her father had to trick Jacob to marry her!(genesis 29:23,24). Why? Maybe because she got many proposals but got rejected when they saw her in person or maybe because her dad thought that no one would be willing to marry her. I don’t know!        But knowing that her f