Holman Christian Standard Bible

Genesis 30:10-17 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

10. Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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

12. When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

13. Leah said, “I am happy that the women call me happy,” so she named him Asher.

14. Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15. But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes? ”“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

16. When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.

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