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Genesis 30:16

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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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Genesis 30:16 in other translations

And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

Genesis 30:16 · American Standard Version

Genesis 30:16 in context

  1. 14Reuben 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.”
  2. 15Leah 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.”
  3. 16Jacob 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.
  4. 17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
  5. 18Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.