KJV King James Version
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
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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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
WEB World English Bible
Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
ASV American Standard Version
And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Leah saith, ‘Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;’ and she calleth his name Asher.
Surrounding context — Genesis 30
10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
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 in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
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Luke 1:48For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.Song of Solomon 6:9My 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.Proverbs 31:28Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.Genesis 49:20Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.Genesis 35:26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.Genesis 46:17And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.Deuteronomy 33:24-25And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
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