The Birth of Joseph
22Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb, 23and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said. 24She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Wouldn’t it be fitting for the Creator to open or close a womb as He sees fit?
“God has taken away my shame,”. What shame, loosing the competition with Leah?
Joseph means May He Add. Later in Genesis we will see how God uses Joseph to save this family, but with the hatred and competition between these two sisters is it a wonder that Joseph’s brothers will want to kill him?
One would think that the people God uses in the Bible would be saints above reproach but when you study the Bible you see the people are just like you and me!
Blessings, David
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