Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.
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- KJV And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
- BSB Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
- NKJV Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
- NASB Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan.
- NLT Rachel named him Dan, for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”
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- Lam 3:59Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
- Ps 35:24Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
- Gen 49:16–17“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- Gen 29:32–35Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”
- Deut 33:22About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”
- Gen 46:23The son of Dan: Hushim.
- Jer 15:14–20I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.”
- Gen 35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
- Jer 13:2So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.
- Jer 13:24“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
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