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Genesis 30:15-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.

16. And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.

17. And God heard her prayers: and she conceived and bore the fifth son,

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

19. And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,

20. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry: this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

21. After whom she bore a daughter, named Diana.

22. The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

23. And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken my reproach.

24. And she called his name Joseph, saying: The Lord give me also another son.

25. And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father in law: Send me away that I may return into my country, and to my land.

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