Chapter 7: The Final Names

And God was not finished with Leah. She conceived again and bore a sixth son. She named him Zebulun, which means honor.

LEAH“This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.”

She also bore a daughter, Dinah. Seven children now, more than any other woman in that household.

Then, after years of barrenness, God remembered Rachel. He opened her womb, and she bore a son. She named him Joseph, which means may He add, saying God had taken away her disgrace.

From the moment Joseph arrived, everything in the camp shifted. Jacob held this boy differently. He looked at him with a tenderness that Leah had waited years to see and never received. Rachel had given him one son, and that one son meant more to Jacob than the six sons and daughter Leah had carried for him.