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.
18. Leah said, “God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband”; so she named her son Issachar.
19. Leah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20. She said, “God has given me a fine gift. Now my husband will accept me, because I have borne him six sons”; so she named him Zebulun.
21. Later she bore a daughter, whom she named Dinah.
22. Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.
23. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, “God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son.
24. May the Lord give me another son”; so she named him Joseph.
25. After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Let me go, so that I can return home.
26. Give me my wives and children that I have earned by working for you, and I will leave. You know how well I have served you.”