Genesis 30:24
and she calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
In Context
23and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”;
Cross References
Genesis 35:24Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 37:4and his brothers see that their father has loved him more than any of his brothers, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak [to] him peaceably.
Genesis 42:6and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph’s brothers come and bow themselves to him—face to the earth.
Genesis 49:22Joseph [is] a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, || Daughters step over the wall;
Ezekiel 37:16“And you, son of man, take one stick for yourself, and write on it, || For Judah, and for the sons of Israel, his companions; and take another stick, and write on it, || For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions,
Hebrews 11:21By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the top of his staff.
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 →