Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:
Parallel translations
- KJV And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
- BSB And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
- NKJV Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
- NASB Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
- NLT “Then my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife had two sons,
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Quick answer
Judah quotes Jacob recalling that his wife Rachel bore him two sons. The father's special bond with Rachel's children frames the whole appeal.
Overview
Judah relays Jacob's words about the two sons Rachel bore, Joseph and Benjamin. By centering on Rachel, Jacob's beloved wife, the plea highlights why these sons are uniquely precious to him. Joseph hears his own mother and brother named as he listens in disguise.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Gen 46:19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- Gen 30:22–25God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Gen 35:16–18They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
- Gen 29:18–21Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
- Gen 29:28Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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