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Genesis 30:16-18
English Standard Version Anglicised
Genesis 30:16-18
English Standard Version Anglicised
16 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night. 17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.[a]
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- Genesis 30:18 Issachar sounds like the Hebrew for wages, or hire
English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)
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