Genesis 46:19
17 The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
- KJV
- The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
- WEB
- The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- ASV
- The sons of Rachel Jacob`s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- DARBY
- The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- BLB
- The sons of Rachel, wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
- ÅB
- Jakobs hustru Rakels sønner: Josef og Benjamin;
- OTB
- Rakel, Jakobs kone, fødte ham Josef og Benjamin.
- B1930
- Jakobs hustru Rakels sønner: Josef og Benjamin;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 44:27
And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Read in contextExodus 1:5
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
Read in contextNumbers 1:36–37
From the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read in contextGenesis 39:1–40:23
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
Read in contextNumbers 26:38–41
These were the descendants of Benjamin by their clans: The Belaite clan from Bela, the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel, the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram,
Read in contextGenesis 37:1–36
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
Read in contextGenesis 35:16–18
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Read in contextGenesis 47:1–31
So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
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