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Genesis 30:8-15 Modern English Version (MEV)

8. Then Rachel said, “With great wrestling have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

9. When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

10. Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave Jacob a son.

11. Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she called his name Gad.

12. Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave Jacob a second son.

13. Then Leah said, “Happy am I, for women will call me happy.” So she called his name Asher.

14. At the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15. Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”So Rachel said, “All right, he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

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