Genesis 30:16

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.

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    14Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

    15She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

  • Gen 29:21-25
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    21Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

    22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

    23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

    24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

    25It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

  • Gen 30:17-20
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    17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

    18Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

    19Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

    20Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

  • Gen 30:2-5
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    2Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

    3She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

    4She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

    5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 31:33
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    33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 30:9-10
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    9When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

    10Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 38:16
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    16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

  • Gen 31:4
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    4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 31:25-27
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

    26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

    27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

  • Gen 29:27-30
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    27Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

    28Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

    29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

    30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

  • Gen 29:19
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    19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

  • Gen 38:18
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    16Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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    25It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

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    7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.

  • Gen 30:12
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    12Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 30:28
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    28He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."