Genesis 30:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.””
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BSBPD
“She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Genesis 30:24 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 35:17During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
- Genesis 35:24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 37:2This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Genesis 37:4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
- Genesis 39:1Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
- Genesis 48:1Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Deuteronomy 33:13Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
- Ezekiel 37:16“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’
- Acts 7:9Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
- Hebrews 11:21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
- Revelation 7:8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
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