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Genesis 35:23

in Genesis 35

The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;

KJV

The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

This verse in Genesis 35

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Reuben the firstborn of Jacob

on Genesis 35:23-26

Reuben still carries the title firstborn of Jacob. That stands one verse after verse 22, so the list keeps the rank while the birthright has gone. The closing line says they were born in Paddan-aram, which holds for eleven, since Benjamin was born on the road.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

The sons of Leah,.... Jacob's first wife, which are six, and are reckoned in order, according to their birth, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The sons of Leah - The children are arranged under their respective mothers, and not in order of their birth.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • לֵאָ֔הLeah

    leahH3812 →34 times

  • בְּכ֥וֹר[the] firstborn of

    bekhorH1060 →122 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֖בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • רְאוּבֵ֑ןReuben

    reuvenH7205 →72 times

  • וְשִׁמְעוֹן֙and Simeon

    veshimonH8095 →44 times

  • וְלֵוִ֣יand Levi

    veleviH3878 →59 times

  • וִֽיהוּדָ֔הand Judah

    vihudahH3063 →819 times

  • וְיִשָּׂשכָ֖רand Issachar

    veyisoshkharH3485 →43 times

  • וּזְבוּלֻֽן׃and Zebulun

    uzevulunH2074 →45 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

4 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 33:2

    He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 37:3

      Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

    • Malachi 3:17

      “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

    • Genesis 29:30

      Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

    • Genesis 30:22–24

      Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.