Verse | Translation | Text |
Ge 30:20 | Strong Concordance | And Leah [03812] said [0559], God [0430] hath endued [02064] me with a good [02896] dowry [02065]; now [06471] will my husband [0376] dwell [02082] with me, because I have born [03205] him six [08337] sons [01121]: and she called [07121] his name [08034] Zebulun [02074]. |
King James | And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry--The birth of a son is hailed with demonstrations of joy, and the possession of several sons confers upon the mother an honor and respectability proportioned to their number. The husband attaches a similar importance to the possession, and it forms a bond of union which renders it impossible for him ever to forsake or to be cold to a wife who has borne him sons. This explains the happy anticipations Leah founded on the possession of her six sons. |