OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 30:20

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Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

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Verse 20. Zabulon, “dwelling or cohabiting.” Zobad (which resembles the sound of Zobal) means to endow, ( Calmet.) to which she seems also to refer; as if her marriage was renewed, and God had given her more children for a dowry. Menochius.

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