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11 Leah named him Gad,[a] for she said, “How fortunate I am!”

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Footnotes

  1. 30:11 Gad means “good fortune.”

19 “Gad will be attacked by marauding bands,
    but he will attack them when they retreat.

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11 “But because the rest of you have forsaken the Lord
    and have forgotten his Temple,
and because you have prepared feasts to honor the god of Fate
    and have offered mixed wine to the god of Destiny,

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20 Moses said this about the tribe of Gad:

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad’s territory!
    Gad is poised there like a lion
    to tear off an arm or a head.
21 The people of Gad took the best land for themselves;
    a leader’s share was assigned to them.
When the leaders of the people were assembled,
    they carried out the Lord’s justice
    and obeyed his regulations for Israel.”

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16 The sons of Gad were Zephon,[a] Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

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Footnotes

  1. 46:16 As in Greek version and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Num 26:15); Hebrew reads Ziphion.

26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher.

These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.

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