When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
Genesis 30:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) and she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And she called his name Joseph [may he add] and said, May the Lord add to me another son. American Standard Version (1901) and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son. Common English Bible She named him Joseph, saying to herself, May the LORD give me another son. Catholic Public Domain Version And she called his name Joseph, saying, "The Lord has added to me another son." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son. |
When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
This is the history of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father.
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
“Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write upon it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him’;
twelve thousand of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Benjamin.