Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
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Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
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And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
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And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 30:10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a…
Gen 30:10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
Ver. 10. Bare Jacob a son.] Here Jacob was too indulgent both to his wives and to himself.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a second son.…
And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a second son. As well as Bilhah, and no more.
And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a second son. As well as Bilhah, and no more.
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Genesis 30:13
gen 30:13
gen 30:13
gen 30:13And Leah said,.... Upon the birth of the second son by her maid:
happy am I; or, "in my happiness"; or, "for my happiness" (c); that is, this child is an addition to my happiness, and will serve to increase it: for the daughters will call me blessed; the women of the place where she lived would speak of her as a happy person, that had so many children of her own, and others by her maid; see Psa 127:5,
and she called his name Asher, which signifies "happy" or "blessed". These two sons of Zilpah, according to the Jewish writers (d), were born, Gad on the tenth day of Marchesvan or October, and lived one hundred and twenty five years; and Asher on the twenty second day of Shebet or January, and lived one hundred and twenty three years.
(c) "in felicitate mea", Montanus; "ob beatitatem meam", Drusius; "hoc pro beatitudine men", V. L. "pro beatitudine mihi est", Schmidt. (d) Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 4. 1.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 10, 11. And Zilpah Leah"s maid bare Jacob…
Vers. 10, 11. And Zilpah Leah"s maid bare Jacob a son. And Leah said, A troop cometh. dgB for dgB, in or with good fortune; ejn tuch (LXX); feliciter, sc. this happens to me (Vulgate), a translation which has the sanction of Gesenius, Furst, Rosenm Keil, Kalisch, and other content authorities the Keri, whith is followed by Onkelos and Syriac, reading dg; aB; fortune cometh. The Authorised rendering, supported by the Samaritan, and supposed to accord better with Gen_49:19, is approved by Calvin, Ainsworth, Bush, and others. And she called his name Gad i.e. Good Fortune.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 30:10-13 Gad was the name of a god of…
30:10-13 Gad was the name of a god of fortune. Asher was the name of a god of luck. These names reflect Leah’s pagan background, but there is no indication that she believed in these gods.
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