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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 46:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, etc.] To be her maid, when she was married to Jacob, by whom he had Gad and Asher: and these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls; not that Zilpah bare sixteen children to Jacob, for she bore but two; but the children and grandchildren of these two with them made sixteen.
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