The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
- BSB The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: 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 thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
- Gen 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Gen 39:1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
- Gen 35:24The sons of Rachel; 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.
- Gen 50:1–14And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
- Num 26:38–41The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
- Gen 47:1–31Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
- Gen 49:22–27Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
- Num 1:36–37Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Exod 1:3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
- Gen 37:1–36And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
- 1 Chr 2:2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Exod 1:5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
- Deut 33:12–17And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
- Gen 30:24And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
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