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14 During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrakes. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, |Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.| 15 Leah replied, |Isn't it enough that you took my husband? Are you also going to take my son's mandrakes?| Rachel said, |Very well, Jacob can go to bed with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.| 16 As Jacob was coming in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. |You are to sleep with me,| she said. |You are my reward for my son's mandrakes.| So he went to bed with her that night. 17 God answered Leah's prayer. She became pregnant and gave birth to her fifth son for Jacob. 18 Leah said, |God has given me my reward because I gave my slave to my husband.| So she named him Issachar [Reward]. Genesis 30:14-18, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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