Genesis 30:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 16:13 : 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 So Isaiah replied,“Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?
  • Ezek 16:47 : 47 Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!
  • 1 Cor 4:3 : 3 So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
  • Num 16:9-9 : 9 Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the community to minister to them? 10 He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?

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  • Gen 30:16-17
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    16When 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.

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

  • Gen 30:14
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    14At 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.”

  • Gen 30:1-7
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    1When 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!”

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

    3She 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.”

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

    5Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

    6Then Rachel said,“God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son.” That is why she named him Dan.

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

  • Gen 31:32-35
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    32Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

    33So 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.

    35Rachel said to her father,“Don’t be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period.” So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

  • Gen 29:21-25
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    21Finally Jacob said to Laban,“Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. And I want to sleep with her.”

    22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

    23In 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.)

    25In 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?”

  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 29:27-29
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    27Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

    28Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

  • Gen 38:18
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    18He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

  • Gen 31:19
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    19While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

  • Gen 30:9-10
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    9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

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

  • Gen 30:22-23
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    22Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

    23She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said,“God has taken away my shame.”

  • Gen 38:16
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    16He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”

  • Gen 29:31
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    31The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

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

  • Gen 31:4
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    4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    69%

    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10When 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.

  • Gen 29:12
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    12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.