He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
- BSB He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- NKJV And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
- NASB He put the slave women and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
- NLT He put the servant wives and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
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Cross-references · 4
- Gen 29:30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Gen 30:22–24God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Mal 3:17They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
- Gen 37:3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
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