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Genesis 30:14-26 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

14. Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, "Give me a portion of your son's mandrakes."

15. She responded, "Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "He will sleep with you this night because of your son's mandrakes."

16. And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, "You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night.

17. And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son.

18. And she said, "God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.

19. Conceiving again, Leah bore a sixth son.

20. And she said: "God has endowed me with a good dowry. And now, at this turn, my husband will be with me, because I have conceived six sons for him." And therefore she called his name Zebulun.

21. After him, she bore a daughter, named Dinah.

22. The Lord, likewise remembering Rachel, heeded her and opened her womb.

23. And she conceived and bore a son, saying, "God has taken away my reproach."

24. And she called his name Joseph, saying, "The Lord has added to me another son."

25. But when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: "Release me, so that I may return to my native country and to my land.

26. Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you."

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