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12 Later, Leah’s servant Zilpah bore a second son for Jacob. 13 She said, “How happy I am, because women will call me happy!” So she named him Asher.[a]

Jacob and the Mandrakes

14 Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes[b] in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel[c] told Leah, “Please give me your son’s mandrakes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:13 The Heb. name Asher means happy
  2. Genesis 30:14 I.e. a plant native to Canaan thought to facilitate procreation
  3. Genesis 30:14 Lit. she