The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher. These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
- KJV And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
- BSB And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- NKJV and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.
- NASB and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female slave, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
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The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant, are Gad and Asher; these complete the sons born in Paddan Aram.
Overview
Gad and Asher, sons of Leah's maidservant Zilpah, round out the list of those born during Jacob's years in Paddan Aram. The note that they were born there (with Benjamin born later in Canaan) records the family's history accurately. Together the twelve sons form the foundation of the nation Israel.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 25:20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Gen 30:9–13When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
- Gen 31:18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
- Gen 46:16–18The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
- Gen 35:18As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
- Gen 28:2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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