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Genesis 30:18

“And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.”

Verse in context — Genesis 30

16

And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

17

And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

18

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

19

And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

20

And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

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