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.”
27. Laban said to him, “Let me say this: I have learnt by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
28. Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
29. Jacob answered, “You know how I have worked for you and how your flocks have prospered under my care.
30. The little you had before I came has grown enormously, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I went. Now it is time for me to look out for my own interests.”
31. “What shall I pay you?” Laban asked.Jacob answered, “I don't want any wages. I will continue to take care of your flocks if you agree to this suggestion:
32. Let me go through all your flocks today and take every black lamb and every spotted or speckled young goat. That is all the wages I want.