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Genesis 30:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 30:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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 heeded Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband,” so she named him Issachar.[a]
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- 30.18 In Heb Issachar resembles the word for my hire
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