Genesis 30
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Genesis 30:9-18

9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

10Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

11Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” So she named him Gad.

12Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

13Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

14During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”

16So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

17God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.

18Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

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