Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.
Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Next to the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad will have one portion.
From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,