16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, 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.” And he lay with her that night.
17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name1 Issachar.
19 Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name1 Zebulun.
21 Afterward she bore a adaughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 Then God aremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and bopened her womb.
23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away amy reproach.”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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