Genesis 30
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Genesis 30:9-18

9Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

10Soon Zilpah presented him with a son.

11Leah named him Gad, for she said, “How fortunate I am!”

12Then Zilpah gave Jacob a second son.

13And Leah named him Asher, for she said, “What joy is mine! Now the other women will celebrate with me.”

14One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15But Leah angrily replied, “Wasn’t it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son’s mandrakes, too?” Rachel answered, “I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight if you give me some of the mandrakes.”

16So that evening, as Jacob was coming home from the fields, Leah went out to meet him. “You must come and sleep with me tonight!” she said. “I have paid for you with some mandrakes that my son found.” So that night he slept with Leah.

17And God answered Leah’s prayers. She became pregnant again and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

18She named him Issachar, for she said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife.”

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