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Genesis 30:14-16
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 30:14-16
Contemporary English Version
Love Flowers
14 During the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some love flowers[a] and took them to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah for some of them, 15 but Leah said, “It's bad enough that you stole my husband! Now you want my son's love flowers too.”
“All right,” Rachel answered. “Let me have the flowers, and you can sleep with Jacob tonight.”
16 That evening when Jacob came in from the fields, Leah told him, “You're sleeping with me tonight. I hired you with my son's love flowers.”
They slept together that night,
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- 30.14 love flowers: Also called “mandrakes,” a flowering plant that was thought to give sexual powers.
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