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Genesis 30:12-14
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Genesis 30:12-14
International Standard Version
12 Later, Leah’s servant Zilpah bore a second son for Jacob. 13 She said, “How happy I am, because women will call me happy!” So she named him Asher.[a]
Jacob and the Mandrakes
14 Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes[b] in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel[c] told Leah, “Please give me your son’s mandrakes.”
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- Genesis 30:13 The Heb. name Asher means happy
- Genesis 30:14 I.e. a plant native to Canaan thought to facilitate procreation
- Genesis 30:14 Lit. she
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