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Genesis 46:19

in Genesis 46

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

KJV

The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

This verse in Genesis 46

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

This site's exposition

The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel

on Genesis 46:19-22

Rachel alone is called Jacob's wife in the roll, though she has been dead since chapter 35, and her two are Joseph and Benjamin. Manasseh and Ephraim are counted in, born in Egypt to Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. In chapter 48 a blind man crosses his hands over them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The sons Rachel, Jacob's wife,.... The wife of his affection and choice, his principal wife, yea, his only lawful wife; Zilpah and Bilhah were his concubines, and as for Leah, she was imposed and forced upon him: Joseph and Benjamin; the first was in Egypt already, the other now went down with Jacob.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

THESE ARE THE SONS OF ZILPAH, etc. THE SONS OF RACHEL JACOB’s WIFE, etc. It is customary for Scripture to first enumerate the sons of the mistresses together, just as it said in the Seder Vayishlach Yaakov. Above,: 23-26.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Genesis 46:18:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • בְּנֵ֤י[the] sons of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • רָחֵל֙Rachel

    rachelH735447 times

  • אֵ֣שֶׁת[the] wife of

    ʾeshetH802781 times

  • יַֽעֲקֹ֔בJacob

    yaakoH3290350 times

  • יוֹסֵ֖ףJoseph

    yosefH3130213 times

  • וּבִנְיָמִֽן׃and Benjamin

    uvinyaminH1144166 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 44:27

    And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 35:16–18

      Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

    • Genesis 30:22–25

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

    • Genesis 29:28

      And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

    • Genesis 29:18–21

      Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

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 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).