And Leah said
Upon the birth of the second son by her maid: happy am
I;
or, "in my happiness"; or, "for my happiness" F3; that
is, this child is an addition to my happiness, and will serve to
increase it: for the daughters will call me blessed; the women of
the place where she lived would speak of her as a happy person,
that had so many children of her own, and others by her maid; see
( Psalms
127:5 ) : and she called his name Asher,
which signifies "happy" or "blessed". These two sons of Zilpah,
according to the Jewish writers F4, were born, Gad on the tenth
day of Marchesvan or October, and lived one hundred and twenty
five years; and Asher on the twenty second day of Shebet or
January, and lived one hundred and twenty three years.
F3 (yrvab) "in felicitate mea", Montanus; "ob beatitatem meam", Drusius; "hoc pro beatitudine men", V. L. "pro beatitudine mihi est", Schmidt.
F4 Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 4. 1.