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Genesis 30:8

King James Version (KJV)

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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Genesis 30:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Genesis 30:8

Theological / Devotional

Naphtali. After Dan’s birth Jacob either considered Bilhah as one of his legitimate wives or followed a renewed suggestion of Rachel to procure another son for her by her maid. At the birth of Bilhah’s second son, whom Rachel considered hers by proxy, she stated that she had “wrestled with Great wrestlings,” literally, with “wrestlings of ’Elohim [God],” with her sister and had been successful. Hence she called him Naphtali, “my wrestling.”

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