Genesis 30:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah,“Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 7:13 : 13 The mandrakes send out their fragrance; over our door is every delicacy, both new and old, which I have stored up for you, my lover.
  • Gen 25:30 : 30 So Esau said to Jacob,“Feed me some of the red stuff– yes, this red stuff– because I’m starving!”(That is why he was also called Edom.)

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  • Gen 30:15-17
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    15 But Leah replied,“Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?”“All right,” Rachel said,“he may go to bed with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

    16 When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said,“You must sleep with me because I have paid for your services with my son’s mandrakes.” So he went to bed with her that night.

    17 God paid attention to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a son for the fifth time.

  • Gen 29:29-32
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    29 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

    30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well. He also loved Rachel more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban for seven more years.

    31 The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

    32 So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said,“The LORD has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. Surely my husband will love me now.”

  • Gen 31:33-34
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    33 So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

    34 (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

  • Gen 30:1-5
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    1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob,“Give me children or I’ll die!”

    2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

    3 She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

    4 So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

    5 Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

  • 4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • 14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 35:22-23
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    22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had twelve sons:

    23 The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

  • Gen 29:16-17
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    16 (Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

    17 Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

  • 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

  • 10 Soon Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.

  • Gen 29:23-25
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    23 In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

    24 (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

    25 In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

  • 13 The mandrakes send out their fragrance; over our door is every delicacy, both new and old, which I have stored up for you, my lover.

  • 13 Leah said,“How happy I am, for women will call me happy!” So she named him Asher.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

  • 37 Then Reuben said to his father,“You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.”

  • 22 Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

  • 19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

  • 25 The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • 21 When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying,“Let’s not take his life!”

  • 17 Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

  • 21 Finally Jacob said to Laban,“Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. And I want to sleep with her.”

  • 14 So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.