Genesis 30:24
She called his name Joseph, saying, “the Lord will add to me another son.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
In Context
23She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
Cross References
Genesis 35:24the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
Genesis 37:4When his brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than all his other sons, they hated him and could not speak to him in a friendly manner.
Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. Therefore Joseph’s brothers came and bowed before him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 49:22Joseph, he is a fruitful branch, a fruitful branch by a spring, his tendrils run over the wall.
Hebrews 11:21Faith enabled Jacob, when dying, to give his blessing to each of the sons of Joseph, and ‘to bow himself in worship as he leant 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 →