Happy am I!: see Good News Translation.

For the women will call me happy: women is literally “daughters,” or “girls,” but the reference is to women generally.

Will call me happy must often be restructured to say “Will say that I am happy now,” “Will say to each other ‘She is happy now.’ ”

So she called his name Asher: see Revised Standard Version and Good News Translation footnotes.

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .