Genesis 30:23
and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
In Context
22And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,
24and she calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:5and he gives a certain portion to Hannah—double, for he has loved Hannah, and YHWH has shut her womb;
Luke 1:21And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wondering at his lingering in the temple,
Luke 1:27to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name [is] Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin [is] Mary.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:15-25
14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes. 16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come… Read the whole commentary →