Genesis 30:13

And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

In Context

12Zelpha also bore another.

14And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:26The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

Genesis 49:20Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

Proverbs 31:28Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.

Luke 1:48Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

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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