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Genesis 30:12 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 12
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.Genesis 30:12 · King James Version
Genesis 30:12 in context
10And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
11And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
12And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ZilpahZilpâhZilpah, Leah's maidH2153 →
- Leah'sLêʼâhLeah, a wife of JacobH3812 →
- secondshênîyproperly, doubleH8145 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- maidshiphchâha female slaveH8198 →
- bareyâladto bear youngH3205 →
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We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is, I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel (Gen 30:1, Gen 30:2), occasioned, not so much by her own barrenness as by her sister's fruitfulness.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13