World English Bible
Genesis 30:18
“Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.”
Verse in context — Genesis 30
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Jacob came from the field in the evening, and 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." He lay with her that night.
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God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
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Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
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Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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