Genesis 35:17 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 35:17

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son.

KJV

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

We are apt in extreme perils to comfort ourselves and our friends with the hopes of a temporal deliverance, in which we may be disappointed; we had better ground our comforts on that which cannot fail us, the hope of eternal life. Rachel had passionately said, Give me children, or else I die; and now she had children (for this was her second) she died.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֥י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בְהַקְשֹׁתָ֖הּ	ve.hak.sho.Tah	when had difficulties she	H7185 →
בְּלִדְתָּ֑הּ	be.lid.Tah	when gave birth she	H3205 →
וַתֹּ֨אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
לָ֤הּ	lah	to <the> her
הַמְיַלֶּ֙דֶת֙	ham.ya.Le.det	the midwife	H3205 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּ֣ירְאִ֔י	tir.'I	you be afraid	H3372 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
גַם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
זֶ֥ה	zeh	this [one]	H2088 →
לָ֖ךְ	lakh	for <the> you
בֵּֽן׃	Ben	[is] a son	H1121 →

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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 30:24
She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
leads to
- Genesis 35:24
  The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 49:22–26
  Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Genesis 37:2
  This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father…
- Revelation 7:8
  from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
- Genesis 42:6
  Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the…