Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And God will listen to Leah, and she will conceive and bear to Jacob the fifth son.
New American Standard Bible
God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
King James Version
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
Holman Bible
God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
International Standard Version
God heard what Leah had said, so she conceived and bore a fifth son for Jacob.
A Conservative Version
And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
American Standard Version
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob a fifth son.
Amplified
God listened and answered [the prayer of] Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.
Bible in Basic English
And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son.
Darby Translation
And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
King James 2000
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.
Modern King James verseion
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And God heard Lea, that she conceived and bare unto Jacob the fifth son.
NET Bible
God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.
New Heart English Bible
God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
The Emphasized Bible
And God hearkened unto Leah, - and she conceived and bare to Jacob a fifth son.
Webster
And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
World English Bible
God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Youngs Literal Translation
And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth,
Themes
Children » In answer to prayer » Leah
Emulation » Illustrated » In jacob's household
Family » Instances of infelicity in » Of jacob, the bigamic jealousy between leah and rachel
The tribe of issachar » Descended from jacob's fifth son
Polygamy » Domestic unhappiness » In jacob's family
Women » Instances of » Leah, in her imitation of rachel in the matter of children
Interlinear
'elohiym
Shama`
Harah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 30:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob's Children
16 And Jacob will come from the field in the evening, and Leah will go forth to his meeting, and she will say, Thou shalt come in to me, for hiring I hired thee for my son's apples of mandrakes: and he will lie with her in that night 17 And God will listen to Leah, and she will conceive and bear to Jacob the fifth son. 18 And Leah will say, God gave me My hire because I gave my maid to my husband: and she will call his name Issachar.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 30:6
And Rachel will say, God judged me and also heard my voice, and he will give to me a son; for this she called his name Dan.
Genesis 30:22
And God will remember Rachel, and God will listen to her, and he will open her womb.
Exodus 3:7
And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I saw the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I heard their cry from the face of their pressers; and I knew their pains.
1 Samuel 1:20
And it will be at the return of days Hannah will conceive and bear a son, and she will call his name Samuel, for of Jehovah I asked him.
1 Samuel 1:26-27
And she will say, With leave, my lord, thy soul living, my lord, I the woman standing with thee in here to pray to Jehovah.
Luke 1:13
And the messenger said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy supplication has been heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.