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25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali.

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23 The children of Dan: Hashum.[a](A) 24 The children of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.(B) 25 These are the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all.(C)

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  1. 46.23 Gk: Heb Hushim

These are the descendants of Jacob.

Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

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So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.(A) And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. Then Rachel said, “God has judged me and has also heard my voice and given me a son”; therefore she named him Dan.[a](B) Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed,” so she named him Naphtali.[b](C)

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  1. 30.6 That is, he judged
  2. 30.8 In Heb Naphtali resembles the verb for I have wrestled