14 During wheat harvest,(A) Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants,(B) which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15 But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough(C) that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?”

“Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”(D)

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14 Certo dia, durante a colheita do trigo, Rúben encontrou algumas mandrágoras que cresciam no campo e as trouxe para Lia, sua mãe. Raquel suplicou a Lia: “Por favor, dê-me algumas das mandrágoras de seu filho”.

15 Lia, porém, respondeu: “Não basta ter roubado meu marido? Agora também quer roubar as mandrágoras de meu filho?”.

Raquel propôs: “Em troca de algumas mandrágoras, deixarei que Jacó se deite com você esta noite”.

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