² He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

³⁰ He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

²² God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

²³ She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

²⁴ She named him Joseph,{Joseph means "may he add."} saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

¹⁷ They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.