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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 30:8
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Rachel said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, etc.] Or, “with the wrestlings of God” f1488, wrestling and striving in prayer with God; being vehement and importunate in her petitions to him, that she might have children as well as her sister: some render it, “I used the craftinesses of God”, or “great craftiness with my sisters” f1489; by giving her maid Bilhah to her husband, and having children by her: and I have prevailed; as she strove in her desires and prayers to have another child before her sister had; in that she prevailed, or she was succeeded in her desires, she had children as she wished to have: and she called his name Naphtali; which signifies “my wrestling”, being a child she had been striving and wrestling for: these two sons of Bilhah were born, as say the Jews, Dan on the twenty ninth day of Elul or August, and lived one hundred and twenty seven years; Naphtali on the fifth of Tisri or September, and lived one hundred and thirty three years.
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