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In the book of Genesis, one of Jacob's two wives.

Jacob was forced to serve her father, Laban, for seven years to win her, but at the end of that time he was tricked into marrying her sister, Leah. He was then allowed to marry Rachel as well, in return for seven more years of labour. At first childless, Rachel eventually gave birth to Joseph, and she died giving birth to Benjamin.

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Jackson, Rachel - wife of U.S. Army general and president-elect Andrew Jackson, who became the seventh president of the United States (1829-37). She died less than three months before his inauguration.
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Rachel, Mademoiselle - original name Elisa Felix French classical tragedienne who dominated the Comedie-Francaise for 17 years.
Kempson, Rachel - British actress (b. May 28, 1910, Dartmouth, Eng.-d. May 24, 2003, Millbrook, N.Y.), had a distinguished stage, film, and television career in Great Britain but, especially in the U.S., became better known as the matriarch of the Redgrave acting family-the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, the mother of Vanessa, Corin, and Lynn Redgrave, and the grandmother of Natasha Richardson.
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