Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph, saying, LORD adds another son to me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
In Context
23And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.
Cross References
Genesis 35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 37:4And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. And they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
Genesis 42:6And Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain, his branches run over the wall.
Ezekiel 37:16And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his companions. Then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his
Hebrews 11:21By faith Jacob, while dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and bowed in worship upon the top of his staff.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:15-25
14 And 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. 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes. 16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come… Read the whole commentary →