23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. …
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. …
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. …
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)Here is, 1. Jacob’s removal, Gen. 35:21. He also, as his fathers, sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, and was not long in a place. Immediately after the story of Rachel’s death he is here called Israel ( Gen. 35:21 , 22 ), and not often so afterwards: the Jews say, “The historian does him this honour here because he bore that affliction with such admirable patience and submis…
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