Genesis 30:13
And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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
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 49:20Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
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. Shall call me blessed... These words are a prediction of that honour which the church in all ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let Protestants examine whether they are any way concerned in this prophecy.
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 →