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Genesis 30:10-17 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

10. Then Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

11. Leah said, “I have been lucky”; so she named him Gad.

12. Zilpah bore Jacob another son,

13. and Leah said, “How happy I am! Now women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.

14. During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”

15. Leah answered, “Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes.”Rachel said, “If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight.”

16. When Jacob came in from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You are going to sleep with me tonight, because I have paid for you with my son's mandrakes.” So he had intercourse with her that night.

17. God answered Leah's prayer, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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