and Leah said, “I am very happy! Now women will call me happy,” so she named him Asher.
because he has shown his concern for his humble servant girl. From now on, all people will say that I am blessed,
but there is only one like my dove, my perfect one. She is her mother’s only daughter, the brightest of the one who gave her birth. The young women saw her and called her happy; the queens and the slave women also praised her.
Her children speak well of her. Her husband also praises her,
“Asher’s land will grow much good food; he will grow food fit for a king.
And he had two sons by Leah’s slave girl Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are Jacob’s sons who were born in Northwest Mesopotamia.
Asher’s sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister was Serah. Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malkiel.
Zilpah gave birth to another son,