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Genesis 30:11-24 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

11. And Lĕ’ah said, “With Gaḏ!” So she called his name Gaḏ.

12. And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.

13. And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr.

14. And Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And Raḥĕl said to Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”

15. But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥĕl said, “Therefore let him lie with you tonight for your son’s love-apples.”

16. And when Ya‛aqoḇ came out of the field in the evening, Lĕ’ah went out to meet him and said, “Do come in to me, for indeed, I have hired you with my son’s love-apples.” And he lay with her that night.

17. And Elohim listened to Lĕ’ah, and she conceived and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a fifth son.

18. And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because I have given my female servant to my husband.” So she called his name Yissasḵar.

19. And Lĕ’ah conceived again and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a sixth son.

20. And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present. Now my husband is going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zeḇulun.

21. And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

22. And Elohim remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and opened her womb.

23. And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.”

24. So she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “יהוה has added to me another son.”

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