OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 24

Genesis 30:24

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She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”

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Genesis 30:21–27

21

Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

22

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

23

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

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She named him Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add another son to me.”

25

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

27

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”

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  1. Joseph means “may he add”.

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