KJV King James Version
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
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Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
WEB World English Bible
She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
ASV American Standard Version
and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, ‘Jehovah is adding to me another son.’
Surrounding context — Genesis 30
21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
26 Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
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Genesis 49:22-26Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:Genesis 35:24The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:Revelation 7:8Of the tribe of Zabulon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand.Genesis 37:2These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.Genesis 39:1-23And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.Genesis 35:17-18And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.Hebrews 11:21-22By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.Genesis 42:6And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.Deuteronomy 33:13-17And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,Genesis 48:1-22And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Genesis 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.Acts 7:9-15And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,Ezekiel 37:16Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
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