Gad and Asher

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, vvv she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. 10 And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said,“How fortunate!”[fn] So she named him Gad.[fn]

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When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, 13 Leah said,“How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.[fn]

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Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Rachel begged Leah,“Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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But Leah replied“Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes [as well]?”

“Very well,” said Rachel,“he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

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When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said,“You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So [he] slept with her that night.

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