Genesis 30:5–24
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5Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son. 6Rachel said, “God has judged in my favour. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son”; so she named him Dan.u 7Bilhah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a second son. 8Rachel said, “I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won”; so she named him Naphtali.v
9When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife. 10Then Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11Leah said, “I have been lucky”; so she named him Gad.w 12Zilpah bore Jacob another son, 13and Leah said, “How happy I am! Now women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.x
14During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes,y which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15Leah answered, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son’s mandrakes.”
Rachel said, “If you will give me your son’s mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight.”
16When Jacob came in from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You are going to sleep with me tonight, because I have paid for you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he had intercourse with her that night.
17God answered Leah’s prayer, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18Leah said, “God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband”; so she named her son Issachar.z 19Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20She said, “God has given me a fine gift. Now my husband will accept me, because I have borne him six sons”; so she named him Zebulun.a 21Later she bore a daughter, whom she named Dinah.
22Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children. 23She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, “God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son. 24May the Lord give me another son”; so she named him Joseph.b
Footnotes
- udan: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “judge in favour”.
- vnaphtali: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “fight”.
- wgad: This name in Hebrew means “luck”.
- xasher: This name in Hebrew means “happy”.
- ymandrakes: Plants which were believed to produce fertility and were used as love-charms.
- zissachar: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “a man is hired” and “there is reward”.
- azebulun: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “accept” and “gift”.
- bjoseph: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “may he give another” and “he has taken away”.
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