Genesis 46:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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רָחֵ֔ל

Râchêl

H7354

“Rachel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 47× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 29:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H7353

TWOT: None

Rachel = "ewe" - daughter of Laban, wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

About this verse

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10: words
10: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

רָחֵ֔ל Rachel H7354 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
5 nouns
2 adjectives
1 pronoun
1 particle

Verb forms

יֻלַּ֖ד Pual · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 46:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֵ֚לֶּה בְּנֵ֣י רָחֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻלַּ֖ד לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב כָּל נֶ֖פֶשׁ אַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָֽׂר

These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 46:22 Septuagint · lemma form

οὗτος υἱός ραχηλ ὅς τίκτω ὁ ἰακώβ πᾶς ψυχή δέκα ὀκτώ

These are the sons of Rachel, which she bore to Jacob; all the souls eighteen.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

אִלֵּין בְּנֵי רָחֵל דְּאִתְיְלִידוּ לְיַעֲקֹב כָּל נַפְשָׁא אַרְבָּעָה עֲשָׂר

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

אִלֵין בְּנֵי רָחֵל דְאִיתְיְלִידוּ לְיַעֲקב כָּל נַפְשָׁתָא אַרְבֵּסְרֵי

These are the children of Rahel who were born unto Jakob, all the souls fourteen.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 46:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(22) All the souls were fourteen.—Made up of Joseph and two sons, and Benjamin and ten sons.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt,.... These are in parcels before mentioned, but here they are brought to a sum total; and by this phrase are excluded those that died before, as Er and Onan, and those that were in Egypt before, as Joseph and his two sons; and I should think also all that were born in Egypt afterwards, even while Jacob was living: those reckoned are only such:

which came out of his loins: such as were his seed and offspring. This is observed for the sake of what follows, and to exclude them:

besides Jacob's sons' wives; these do not come into the account, because they did not spring from him:

all the souls were threescore and six; thirty two of Leah's, leaving out Er and Onan, sixteen of Zilpah's, fourteen of Rachel's, and seven of Bilhah's, make sixty nine; take out of them Joseph and his two sons, who were in Egypt before, and you have the exact number of sixty six.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Râchêl (“Rachel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Rachel” (Râchêl) shape what this verse is saying?
Genesis 29:6 shares the word «Rachel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «יֻלַּ֖ד» is Pual Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.