Genesis 30:6
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New International Version
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan.


English Standard Version
Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.


New American Standard Bible
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.


King James Bible
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; yes, He has heard me and given me a son," and she named him Dan.


International Standard Version
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan.


American Standard Version
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.


Douay-Rheims Bible
And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son, and therefore she called his name Dan.


Darby Bible Translation
And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan.


Young's Literal Translation
and Rachel saith, 'God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.


Commentaries
30:1-13 Rachel envied her sister: envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more hateful to God, or more hurtful to our neighbours and ourselves. She considered not that God made the difference, and that in other things she had the advantage. Let us carefully watch against all the risings and workings of this passion in our minds. Let not our eye be evil towards any of our fellow-servants, because our Master's is good. Jacob loved Rachel, and therefore reproved her for what she said amiss. Faithful reproofs show true affection. God may be to us instead of any creature; but it is sin and folly to place any creature in God's stead, and to place that confidence in any creature, which should be placed in God only. At the persuasion of Rachel, Jacob took Bilhah her handmaid to wife, that, according to the usage of those times, her children might be owned as her mistress's children. Had not Rachel's heart been influenced by evil passions, she would have thought her sister's children nearer to her, and more entitled to her care than Bilhah's. But children whom she had a right to rule, were more desirable to her than children she had more reason to love. As an early instance of her power over these children, she takes pleasure in giving them names that carry in them marks of rivalry with her sister. See what roots of bitterness envy and strife are, and what mischief they make among relations. At the persuasion of Leah, Jacob took Zilpah her handmaid to wife also. See the power of jealousy and rivalship, and admire the wisdom of the Divine appointment, which joins together one man and one woman only; for God hath called us to peace and purity.

3-9. Bilhah … Zilpah—Following the example of Sarah with regard to Hagar, an example which is not seldom imitated still, she adopted the children of her maid. Leah took the same course. A bitter and intense rivalry existed between them, all the more from their close relationship as sisters; and although they occupied separate apartments, with their families, as is the uniform custom where a plurality of wives obtains, and the husband and father spends a day with each in regular succession, that did not allay their mutual jealousies. The evil lies in the system, which being a violation of God's original ordinance, cannot yield happiness.
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