Genesis 30:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.

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  • Song 7:13 : 13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.
  • Gen 25:30 : 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.

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  • Gen 30:15-17
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    15 But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.

    16 In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night.

    17 And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 29:29-32
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    29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.

    30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

    31 Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

    32 And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me.

  • Gen 31:33-34
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    33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

    34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

  • Gen 30:1-5
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    1 Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

    2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

    3 Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

    4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

    5 And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

  • 4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • 14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 35:22-23
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    22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

    23 Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

  • Gen 29:16-17
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    16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17 And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

  • 7 And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son.

  • 10 And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son.

  • Gen 29:23-25
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    23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.

    24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.

    25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

  • 13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

  • 13 And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

    10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

  • 37 And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.

  • 22 Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.

  • 19 Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

  • 25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

  • 21 But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.

  • 17 And she gave into the hand of Jacob, her son, the meat and the bread which she had made ready.

  • 21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are ended.

  • 14 So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.