Genesis 30:6

and Rachel says, “God has decided for me, and has also listened to my voice, and gives a son to me”; therefore she has called his name Dan.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

In Context

5and Bilhah conceives, and bears a son to Jacob,

7And Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceives again, and bears a second son to Jacob,

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Cross References

Genesis 29:32and Leah conceives, and bears a son, and calls his name Reuben, for she said, “Because YHWH has looked on my affliction; because now does my husband love me.”

Genesis 46:23And sons of Dan: Hushim.

Deuteronomy 27:13And these stand, for the reviling, on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.”

Psalms 35:24Judge me according to Your righteousness, O YHWH my God, || And they do not rejoice over me.

Jeremiah 13:2And I get the girdle, according to the word of YHWH, and I place [it] on my loins.

Jeremiah 15:14And I have caused your enemies || To pass over into the land [that] You have not known, || For a fire has been kindled in My anger, || It burns against you.”

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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