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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.
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Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.
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Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad.
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Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
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Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
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Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
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Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
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She named him Joseph, and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”
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He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
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May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.
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When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
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The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
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Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
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Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
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Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.
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God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.
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As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
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These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau’s wife Basemath.
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Esau’s son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
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Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.
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When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.
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When Baal-Hanan son of Akbor died, Hadad succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.
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These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
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Judah and Tamar
At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.
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There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her;
