² He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

¹⁷ They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.^(A)

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him an ornamented robe.^[a](A)

²² Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb.^{(A) 23} She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach,”^{(B) 24} and she named him Joseph,^[a] saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”^(C)

³⁰ So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He served Laban^[a] for another seven years.^(A)