Genesis 46:18

These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

BSB

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

KJV

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

ASV

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

YLT

These are sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she beareth these to Jacob--sixteen persons.

DBT

— These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Voices2

On this verse

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter,.... To be her maid, when she was married to Jacob, by whom he had Gad and Asher: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls; not that Zilpah bare sixteen children to Jacob, for she bore but two; but the children and grandchildren of these two with them made sixteen.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch 7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Voices on this verse

loading…

Cross-references

4 linked verses

The verses this one reaches4

Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
Exodus 1:4
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
Genesis 30:9–13
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Cross-references

loading…

The quotation web

loading…

Around this verse

Word doors

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

Who & where

About this book

Jacob Goes to Egypt — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
leads to
- Genesis 30:9–12
  When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 16:1
  Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- Genesis 24:59
  So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
Through
Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
leads to
- Genesis 31:18
  and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
- Genesis 30:9–13
  When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 35:18
  And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
- Genesis 25:20
  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 46:16–18
  The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Genesis 46 →