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Genesis 30:11
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9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and agave her to Jacob as wife.  
10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 Then Leah said,1 “A troop comes!” So she called his name2 Gad.  
12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters awill call me blessed.” So she called his name1 Asher.  
14 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, a“Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”  
15 But she said to her, a“Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”  
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Adam Clarke
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Genesis 30:11

She called his name Gad - This has been variously translated. gad , may signify a troop, an army, a soldier, a false god, supposed to be the same as Jupiter or Mars; for as Laban appears to have been, if not an idolater, yet a dealer in a sort of judicial astrology, (see Genesis 31:19), Leah, in saying bagad , which we translate a troop cometh, might mean, By or with the assistance of Gad - a particular planet or star, Jupiter possibly, I have gotten this son; therefore she called him after the name of that planet or star from which she supposed the succor came. See note on Genesis 31:19. The Septuagint translate it , with good fortune; the Vulgate, feliciter , happily; but in all this diversity our own translation may appear as probable as any, if not the genuine one, ba gad , for the keri, or marginal reading, has it in two words, a troop cometh; whereas the textual reading has it only in one, bagad , with a troop. In the Bible published by Becke, 1549, the word is translated as an exclamation, Good luck!




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 30:11:

Genesis 31:55
Genesis 31:55
Isaiah 65:11

 

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