Genesis 30:22
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New International Version (©2011)
Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

NET Bible (©2006)
Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then God remembered Rachel. God answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

American King James Version
And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

American Standard Version
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

Darby Bible Translation
And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

English Revised Version
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Webster's Bible Translation
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and rendered her fruitful.

World English Bible
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Young's Literal Translation
And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:14-24 The desire, good in itself, but often too great and irregular, of being the mother of the promised Seed, with the honour of having many children, and the reproach of being barren, were causes of this unbecoming contest between the sisters. The truth appears to be, that they were influenced by the promises of God to Abraham; whose posterity were promised the richest blessings, and from whom the Messiah was to descend.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 22-24. - And God remembered Rachel (cf. Genesis 8:1; 1 Samuel 1:19), and God hearkened to her, - as to Leah (ver. 17) - and opened her womb - as he had previously done to Leah (Genesis 29:31). Rachel's barrenness had not continued so long as either Sarah's or Rebekah's. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach - i.e. of sterility. The mandrakes of Leah having proved inefficacious, Rachel at length realizes that children are God s gift, and this thought sufficiently explains the use of the term Elohim. And she called his name Joseph; - יוסֵפ, either, "he takes away," with allusion to the removal of her reproach, or, "he shall add," with reference to her hope of another son. Perhaps the first thought is not obscurely hinted at, though the second appears' from the ensuing clause to have occupied the greater prominence in Rachel's mind - and said, The Lord - Jehovah; a trace of the Jehovistic pen (Tuch, Bleek, et alii); rather an outcome of the higher spiritual life of Rachel, who had now got emancipated from all such merely human devices as resorting to mandrakes, and was able to recognize her complete dependence for offspring on the sovereign grace of the covenant God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob (Hengstenberg, Keil) - shall add to me another son.

CHAPTER 30:25-43

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And God remembered Rachel,.... In a way of mercy and kindness, whom he seemed to have forgotten, by not giving her children:

and God hearkened to her; to her prayer, which had been made time after time, that she might have children; but hitherto God had delayed to answer, but now gives one:

and opened her womb; gave her conception, and made her fruitful, and she became the mother of a child she so much desired.

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The Birth of Joseph
22And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. 23And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach: 24And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

Genesis 29:31 When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.
Genesis 30:21 Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
1 Samuel 1:19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the LORD and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
1 Samuel 1:20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "Because I asked the LORD for him."