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Genesis 30:13-25 Amplified Bible (AMP)

13. And Leah said, I am happy, for women will call me blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied); and she named him Asher [happy].

14. Now Reuben went at the time of wheat harvest and found some mandrakes (love apples) in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, some of your son's mandrakes.

15. But [Leah] answered, Is it not enough that you have taken my husband without your taking away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with you tonight [in exchange] for your son's mandrakes.

16. And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have certainly paid your hire with my son's mandrakes. So he slept with her that night.

17. And God heeded Leah's [prayer], and she conceived and bore Jacob [her] fifth son.

18. Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar [hired].

19. And Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob [her] sixth son.

20. Then Leah said, God has endowed me with a good marriage gift [for my husband]; now will he dwell with me [and regard me as his wife in reality], because I have borne him six sons; and she named him Zebulun [dwelling].

21. Afterwards she bore a daughter and called her Dinah.

22. Then God remembered Rachel and answered her pleading and made it possible for her to have children.

23. And [now for the first time] she became pregnant and bore a son; and she said, God has taken away my reproach, disgrace, and humiliation.

24. And she called his name Joseph [may he add] and said, May the Lord add to me another son.

25. When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and country.