KJV King James Version
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 35:25
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
WEB World English Bible
The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
ASV American Standard Version
and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali.
Surrounding context — Genesis 35
22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
Cross-references
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 30:4-8And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.Genesis 46:23-25And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Genesis 35:25
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →