30 When Rachel saw that (A)she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, (B)who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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22 Then God (A)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and (B)opened her womb. 23 She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away (C)my reproach.” 24 And she called his name Joseph,[a] saying, (D)“May the Lord add to me another son!”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:24 Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away

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