Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”
Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 30:15 in context
Genesis 30:12–18
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Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
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Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
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Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”
Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
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Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”
He lay with her that night.
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God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
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