Genesis 35:17
“And it came to passe when shee was in hard labour, that the midwife said vnto her, Feare not: thou shalt haue this sonne also.”
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Genesis 35:17 Context
15And Iacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. 16¶ And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour. 17And it came to passe when shee was in hard labour, that the midwife said vnto her, Feare not: thou shalt haue this sonne also. 18And it came to passe as her soule was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Beniamin. 19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
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Other Translations for Genesis 35:17
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
- King James Version
When she was in severe labor the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for now you have another son."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.
- Basic English Bible
And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.
- Darby Bible
And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
- Webster's Bible
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
- World English Bible
and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also [is] a son for thee.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Genesis 35:17
35:17 Rachel had said when she bore Joseph, God shall give me another son, which now the midwife remembers, and tells her, her words were made good. Yet this did not avail; unless God command away fear, no one else can. We are apt in extreme perils to comfort ourselves and our friends with the hopes of a temporal deliverance, in which we may be disappointed; we had better ground our comforts on that which cannot fail us, the hope of eternal life. Rachel had passionately said, Give me children, or else I die; and now she had children (for this was her second) she died.