Genesis 30:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 35:23 : 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
  • Gen 46:13 : 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
  • Gen 49:14-15 : 14 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. 15 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
  • Deut 33:18 : 18 Of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.
  • 1 Chr 12:32 : 32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.

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    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.

    21Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

    22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

    23She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

    24She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

  • Gen 30:15-17
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    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."

    16Jacob 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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    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.

    6Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.

    7Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

    8Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

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

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    31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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    33She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

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

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    27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

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    15Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

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    14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

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    23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

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

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    30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

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    3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

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    18Of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.