Genesis 30:13

Then Leah said, “I am really happy. Other women will see me and say, ‘Look at her, she is really happy now!’” Leah named the baby, Asher.

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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

12Jacob slept with Zilpah again and she gave Jacob another son.

14It was the right time of the year to get all the food seeds out of the paddocks. The men were collecting the seeds and putting them in sheds. One day, Reuben, Jacob's oldest son went out into the paddocks and found some plants called Mandrakes growing there. He picked them and took them to his mother Leah. But Rachel saw the plants and said to Leah, “Please give me some of those Mandrakes so that I can eat them and have a baby for myself.” In those days, people thought that Mandrakes had special powers and that if you ate them, you would have a baby.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:26Leah's worker named Zilpah had 2 sons with Jacob and their names were Gad and Asher. So, this is the full list of Jacob's sons born in Harran.

Genesis 49:20Asher's country will grow a lot of food. That food will be so good, kings will want to eat it.

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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