Genesis 30:13

and Leah says, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed”; and she calls his name Asher.

Literal Standard Version

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

12And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a second son to Jacob,

14And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.”

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Cross References

Genesis 35:26And sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant: Gad and Asher. These [are] sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram.

Genesis 49:20Out of Asher his bread [is] fat; And he gives delicacies of a king.

Proverbs 31:28Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her blessed, || Her husband, and he praises her,

Luke 1:48Because He looked on the lowliness of His maidservant, || For behold, from now on all the generations will 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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