English Standard Version

Genesis 30:22–25

22 Then God mremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and nopened her womb. 23 She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away omy reproach.” 24 And she called his name Joseph,10 saying, p“May the Lord add to me another son!”

Jacob’s Prosperity

25 As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

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See ch. 8:1

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Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away

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ch. 35:17

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