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Genesis 30:13

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And Leah said,.... Upon the birth of the second son by her maid:happy am I; or, "in my happiness"; or, "for my happiness" ; that is, this child is an addition to my happiness, and will serve to increase it: for the daughters will call me blessed; the women of the place where she lived would speak of her as a happy person, that had so many children of her own, and others by her maid; see Ps 127:5:and she called his name Asher, which signifies "happy" or "blessed".

These two sons of Zilpah, according to the Jewish writers , were born, Gad on the tenth day of Marchesvan or October, and lived one hundred and twenty five years; and Asher on the twenty second day of Shebet or January, and lived one hundred and twenty three years.

yrvab "in felicitate mea", Montanus; "ob beatitatem meam", Drusius; "hoc pro beatitudine men", V. L. "pro beatitudine mihi est", Schmidt. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 4.

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