The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- KJV The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
- NKJV The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.
- NASB The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
- NLT The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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Quick answer
Rachel's two sons, Joseph and Benjamin, are named. They are the children of Jacob's beloved wife.
Overview
Rachel is here uniquely called 'Jacob's wife,' reflecting the special place she held in his affection. Joseph and Benjamin headed influential tribes, and from Joseph came Ephraim and Manasseh. Joseph's life of suffering followed by exaltation foreshadows Christ, who was rejected by his brothers yet became their deliverer.
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- Gen 44:27And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
- Gen 29:18Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
- Gen 39:1Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- Gen 35:24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
- Gen 35:16–18Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
- Gen 50:1–14Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
- Num 26:38–41These were the descendants of Benjamin by their clans: The Belaite clan from Bela, the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel, the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram,
- Gen 47:1–31So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
- Gen 49:22–27Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Num 1:36–37From the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
- Exod 1:3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
- Gen 37:1–36Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
- 1 Chr 2:2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Exod 1:5The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- Deut 33:12–17Concerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”
- Gen 30:24She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
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