Genesis 30:13

And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

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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 maid, bore Jacob a second son.

14And Reuben went, in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Padan-aram.

Genesis 49:20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

Proverbs 31:28Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also , and he praiseth her.

Luke 1:48For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for behold, from henceforth all 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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