Genesis 30:22-24
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, ▼
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Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away
saying, e “May the Lord add to me another son!”
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