14. One day, during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and came upon some mandrakes in the field which he brought home to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15. Leah replied, “Was it not enough for you to take away my husband, that you must now take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel answered, “In that case Jacob may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
16. That evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to meet him. She said, “You must have intercourse with me, because I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So that night he lay with her,
17. and God listened to Leah; she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
18. Leah then said, “God has given me my wages for giving my maidservant to my husband”; so she named him Issachar.
19. Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob;
20. and Leah said, “God has brought me a precious gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons”; so she named him Zebulun.
21. Afterwards she gave birth to a daughter, and she named her Dinah.
22. Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and made her fruitful.
23. She conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has removed my disgrace.”
24. She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add another son for me!”
25. After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: “Allow me to go to my own region and land.
26. Give me my wives and my children for whom I served you and let me go, for you know the service that I rendered you.”
27. Laban answered him: “If you will please! I have learned through divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
28. He continued, “State the wages I owe you, and I will pay them.”
29. Jacob replied: “You know what work I did for you and how well your livestock fared under my care;
30. the little you had before I came has grown into an abundance, since the Lord has blessed you in my company. Now, when can I do something for my own household as well?”
31. Laban asked, “What should I give you?” Jacob answered: “You do not have to give me anything. If you do this thing for me, I will again pasture and tend your sheep.
32. Let me go through your whole flock today and remove from it every dark animal among the lambs and every spotted or speckled one among the goats. These will be my wages.