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Genesis 35:24

in Genesis 35

The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

KJV

The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

This verse in Genesis 35

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Reuben the firstborn of Jacob

on Genesis 35:23-26

The twelve are listed together for the first time, grouped by their four mothers, and Reuben still carries the title firstborn of Jacob one verse after verse 22. The list keeps the rank while the birthright has gone, and the closing line says they were born in Paddan-aram, which holds for eleven. 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 Rachel,.... Then Rachel's, Jacob's next wife, though in right his first and only one, who had two children, Joseph and Benjamin.

The words behind it

4 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

    beneiH11214930 times

  • רָחֵ֔לRachel

    rachelH735447 times

  • יוֹסֵ֖ףJoseph

    yosefH3130213 times

  • וּבִנְיָמִֽן׃and Benjamin

    uvinyaminH1144166 times

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

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.