Genesis 30:14-24 ▼

14 And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.”

15 And she says to her, “Is your taking my husband a little thing, that you have also taken the love-apples of my son?” And Rachel says, “He therefore lies with you tonight, for your son’s love-apples.”

16 And Jacob comes in from the field at evening; and Leah goes to meet him and says, “You come in to me, for [in] hiring I have hired you with my son’s love-apples”; and he lies with her during that night.

17 And God listens to Leah, and she conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, a fifth,

18 and Leah says, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband”; and she calls his name Issachar.

19 And Leah conceives again, and she bears a sixth son to Jacob,

20 and Leah says, “God has endowed me—a good dowry; this time my husband dwells with me, for I have borne six sons to him”; and she calls his name Zebulun;

21 and afterward she has borne a daughter, and calls her name Dinah.

22 And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,

23 and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”;

24 and she calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”