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Genesis 30:16-18
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Genesis 30:16-18
Holman Christian Standard Bible
16 When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.[a]
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- Genesis 30:18 In Hb, the name Issachar sounds like “reward.”
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