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Genesis 30:5–24

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5And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6Then Rachel said, “God has fjudged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.3 7Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings4 I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name gNaphtali.5

9When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and hgave her to Jacob as a wife. 10Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, i“Good fortune has come!” so she called his name iGad.6 12Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women jhave called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.7

14In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found kmandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 15But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.” 16When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night. 17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.8

19And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. 20Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name lZebulun.9 21Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 3Dan sounds like the Hebrew for judged
  2. 4Hebrew With wrestlings of God
  3. 5Naphtali sounds like the Hebrew for wrestling
  4. 6Gad sounds like the Hebrew for good fortune
  5. 7Asher sounds like the Hebrew for happy
  6. 8Issachar sounds like the Hebrew for wages, or hire
  7. 9Zebulun sounds like the Hebrew for honor
  8. 10Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away

Cross references

  1. f[ch. 49:16]
  2. g[Matt. 4:13]
  3. hver. 4; ch. 29:24
  4. i[ch. 49:19]
  5. j[Luke 1:48]
  6. kSong 7:13
  7. l[Matt. 4:13]
  8. mSee ch. 8:1
  9. nch. 29:31; [Ps. 127:3]
  10. oLuke 1:25; [1 Sam. 1:6; Isa. 4:1]
  11. pch. 35:17