The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
Jacob loved Rachel. So he offered, “I’ll work seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
She named him Joseph [May He Give Another] and said, “May the Lord give me another son.”
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
Joseph had been taken to Egypt. Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s Egyptian officials and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
“Then our father said to us, ‘You know that my wife ⌞Rachel⌟ gave me two sons.
These were the descendants of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. She gave birth to these children for Jacob. The total was 16.
In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest from the city of On.
Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
Joseph was already in Egypt. The total number of Jacob’s descendants was 70.
