Genesis 30:8

about whom Rachel said, “God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed.” And she called him Naphtali.

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In The King James Version

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

In Context

7And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another,

9Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:24he remained alone. And behold, a man wrestled with him until morning.

Genesis 46:24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni, and Jezer and Shillem.

Exodus 9:28Pray to the Lord, so that the thundering of God and the hail may cease, so that I may release you, and so that you may by no means remain here any longer.”

1 Samuel 14:15And a miracle occurred in the camp, out in the fields. And all of the people of their garrison, who had gone out in order to plunder, were stupefied. And the earth trembled. And it happened as a miracle from God.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14

Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →

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