Asher’s Bread Will Be Fat

Out of Asher his bread will be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Gen. 49:20 It is not always easy to sense the meaning and im­plication of the utterance that would fall from the lips of Rachel and Leah when for the first they clasped to their bosom the child that was born. These saying, to be understood, must be viewed in the light of what these women were fundamentally as to the heart of their dispositions, in the light of whatever circum­stance that is known to have effected them each...