Add parallel Print Page Options

22 Then God remembered Rachel and answered her prayer. God made it possible for her to have children. 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, “God has taken away my shame.” 24 She named him Joseph.[a] Rachel said, “I wish the Lord would give me another son.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 30:24 Joseph This name sounds like the Hebrew word for “he adds.”

22 Then God remembered Rachel;(A) he listened to her(B) and enabled her to conceive.(C) 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son(D) and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”(E) 24 She named him Joseph,[a](F) and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”(G)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:24 Joseph means may he add.