Genesis 30:13 KJV — MannaFest

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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ASV

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

WEB

Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

YLT

and Leah saith, `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.

DBT

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

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Luke 1:48
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Song of Solomon 6:9
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
Genesis 49:20
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Luke 2:36
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

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Commentary on Chapter 30 1. Rachel envied her sister - Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more injurious both to God, our neighbour, and ourselves. But this was not all, she said to Jacob, give me children or else I die - A child would not content her; but because Leah has more than one, she must have more too;

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Note, There may be great sin and folly in the inordinate desire of a small thing. Leah takes this advantage (as Jacob had of Esau's coveting his red pottage) to obtain that which was justly due to her, but to which Rachel would not otherwise have consented. Note, Strong passions often thwart one another, and those cannot but be continually uneasy that are hurried on by them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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