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Genesis 30:23

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30:23She became pregnant46 and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.”47

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Footnotes

  1. 46 Or “conceived.”
  2. 47 Heb “my reproach.” A “reproach” is a cutting taunt or painful ridicule, but here it probably refers by metonymy to Rachel’s barren condition, which was considered shameful in this culture and was the reason why she was the object of taunting and ridicule.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

She conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

NLTNew Living Translation

She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. “God has removed my disgrace,” she said.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And she conceived and gave birth to a son. And she said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: