Creation & Patriarchs
Birth of Judah
Birth of Judah is dated ≈ 1925 BC in the Modern reckoning and 1755 BC in the Traditional. It is told in Genesis 29:35. Judah (patriarch), Jacob (Israel), Leah are part of it.
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
- a Judah sounds like the Hebrew for praise.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- ≈ 1925 BC (placed between the dated events around it)
- Traditional reckoning
- 1755 BC
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Which verses connect to Genesis 29:35?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Genesis 49:8–126 votes
Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you. Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? …
- 1 Chronicles 5:25 votes
And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.
- Matthew 1:25 votes
Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
- Genesis 35:264 votes
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 38:1–304 votes
About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite. There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her. …
- Genesis 43:8–94 votes
And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children. I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.