Genesis 30:18
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New International Version (©2011)
Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

New Living Translation (©2007)
She named him Issachar, for she said, "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my maid to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband," and she named him Issachar.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then Leah said, "God has paid me for giving my servant to my husband as his wife." So she named him Issachar.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Leah said, "God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife." So she named him Issachar.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Leah said, "God has given me my reward because I gave my slave to my husband." So she named him Issachar [Reward].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Leah said, God has given me my reward, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

American King James Version
And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

American Standard Version
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

Darby Bible Translation
And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.

English Revised Version
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

World English Bible
Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

Young's Literal Translation
and Leah saith, 'God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:14-24 The desire, good in itself, but often too great and irregular, of being the mother of the promised Seed, with the honour of having many children, and the reproach of being barren, were causes of this unbecoming contest between the sisters. The truth appears to be, that they were influenced by the promises of God to Abraham; whose posterity were promised the richest blessings, and from whom the Messiah was to descend.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - And Leah said, God - Elohim; a proof of the lower religious consciousness into which Leah had fallen (Hengstenberg), though perhaps on the above hypothesis an evidence of her piety and faith (Keil, Lange) - hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: - i.e. as a reward for my self-denial (Keil, Murphy); an exclamation in which appears Leah's love for Jacob (Lange), if not also a tacit acknowledgment that she had her fears lest she may have sinned in asking him to wed Zilpah (Rosenmüller) - and she called his name Issachar - "There is Reward," or "There is Hire;" containing a double allusion to her hire of Jacob and her reward for Zilpah

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire,.... Of the mandrakes with which she had hired of Rachel a night's lodging with Jacob, and for which she had a sufficient recompense, by the son that God had given her: and she added another reason, and a very preposterous one, and shows she put a wrong construction on the blessing she received:

because I have given my maiden to my husband; which, she judged, was so well pleasing to God, that he had rewarded her with another son:

and she called his name Issachar, which signifies "hire" or "reward"; or, there is a reward, or a man of reward.

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Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah
17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son. 18And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. 19And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son. …

Genesis 30:17 God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Genesis 30:19 Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.