Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, “God has heard me and given me a son” and she named him Dan.
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In The King James Version
In Context
7Jacob slept with Bilhah, Rachel's working girl again, and she gave him a second son.
Cross References
Genesis 29:32Jacob slept with Leah and she had a son. She named him Reuben. In her language that name means God knows about my sadness and she said to herself, “My husband will love me now.”
Genesis 46:23These are the sons that Jacob had with Bilhah. She was the working girl that Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and later on Rachel gave Bilhah to be another wife for Jacob. Bilhah had 2 sons with Jacob. Their names were Dan and Naftali. Dan had a son named Hushi. And Naftali had 4 sons, named Jar-ziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem. There were 7 people in this part of Jacob's family.
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 →