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Atomic Bible
Genesis 30:13
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
from Gad and Asher, Genesis 30:9-16
What it says

Leah says she is happy, because women will call her happy, and names the son Asher. The birth becomes a public mark of blessedness in her eyes.

What it is doing

It completes Leah's naming of Zilpah's sons.

In context

9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. 10And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad. 12When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, 13Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher. 14Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 15But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” 16When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.