Genesis 30:23
Good News Translation
She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son.

New Revised Standard Version
She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”;

New American Bible
She conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has removed my disgrace.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

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And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.

Genesis 29:31 And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

1 Samuel 1:5,6 But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb. . . .

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Luke 1:21,25,27 And the people were waiting for Zachary: and they wondered that he tarried so long in the temple. . . .

Context
The Birth of Joseph
22The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb. 23And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.24And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.…
Cross References
Luke 1:25
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.

Judges 11:37
And she said to her father: Grant me only this, which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may bewail my virginity with my companions.

Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.

Genesis 30:22
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