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14 Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel told Leah, |Please give me your son's mandrakes.| 15 In response, Leah asked her, |Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband? Now you also want to take my son's mandrakes!| But Rachel replied, |Okay, let's let Jacob sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.| 16 When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went to meet him and told him, |You're having sex with me tonight. I traded my son's mandrakes for you!| So he slept with her that night. 17 God heard what Leah had said, so she conceived and bore a fifth son for Jacob. 18 Then Leah said, |God has paid me for giving my servant to my husband as his wife.| So she named him Issachar. Genesis 30:14-18, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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