The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
- BSB The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
- NKJV the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
- NASB the sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin;
- NLT The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Rachel are Joseph and Benjamin.
Overview
Rachel's two sons, Joseph and Benjamin, are named together, the children of Jacob's most beloved wife. Joseph will rise to preserve the family in Egypt, and Benjamin's tribe later gives Israel its first king and the apostle Paul. The listing situates these sons within the full company of Israel's tribes.
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Cross-references · 3
- Gen 30:22–24And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
- Gen 46:19–22The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
- Gen 35:16–18And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
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