Genesis 30:13
Good News Translation
and Leah said, "How happy I am! Now women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.

New Revised Standard Version
And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.

Contemporary English Version
Leah exclaimed, "I'm happy now, and all the women will say how happy I am." So she named him Asher.

New American Bible
and Leah said, “What good fortune, because women will call me fortunate!” So she named him Asher.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.

A.

2257. B.C.

1747. Happy am I. Heb. In my happiness. will call.

Proverbs 31:28 Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.

Songs 6:9 One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.

Luke 1:48 Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

and she.

Genesis 35:26 The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

Genesis 46:17 The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and Sara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.

Genesis 49:20 Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

Deuteronomy 33:24,25 To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. . . .

Asher.

Context
Gad and Asher
12Zelpha also bore another. 13And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.14And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.…
Cross References
Luke 1:48
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Genesis 30:12
Zelpha also bore another.

Genesis 49:20
Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

Songs 6:9
One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.

Genesis 30:12
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