22 Then God (A)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and (B)opened her womb. 23 She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away (C)my reproach.” 24 And she called his name Joseph,[a] saying, (D)“May the Lord add to me another son!”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:24 Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away

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