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OET (OET-RV)saying, “God has given me my reward because I gave my slave to my husbandto sleep with.” So she named him ‘Yissashkar’ (which means ‘reward’).
Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXXΚαὶ εἶπε Λεία, δέδωκέ μοι ὁ Θεὸς τὸν μισθόν μου, ἀνθʼ οὗ ἔδωκα τὴν παιδίσκην μου τῷ ἀνδρί μου· καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, Ἰσσάχαρ, ὅ ἐστι μισθός. (Kai eipe Leia, dedōke moi ho Theos ton misthon mou, anthʼ hou edōka taʸn paidiskaʸn mou tōi andri mou; kai ekalese to onoma autou, Issaⱪar, ho esti misthos. )
BrTrAnd Lea said, God has given me my reward, because I gave my maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar, which is, Reward.
ULTThen Leah said, “God has given me my reward because I gave my maidservant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.
USTThen she said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named that son Issachar, which means “reward.”
BSBThen Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.[fn]
30:18Issachar sounds like the Hebrew for wages or reward.
OEBLeah said, ‘God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave-girl to my husband’; so she called his name Issachar[fn].
There is a hire
WEBBELeah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
T4TLeah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband to be another wife for him.” So she named him Issachar, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘reward’.
LEBThen Leah said, “God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar.
BBEThen Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.
RVAnd Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
WbstrAnd Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
KJB-1769And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.[fn] (And Leah said, God hath/has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. )
KJB-1611[fn]And Leah said, God hath giuen mee my hire, because I haue giuen my mayden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)
BshpsThen sayde Lea: God hath geuen me a rewarde, because I gaue my mayden to my husbande: and she called him Isachar. (Then said Lea: God hath/has given me a rewarde, because I gave my maiden to my husband: and she called him Isachar.)
GnvaThen said Leah, God hath giuen me my reward, because I gaue my mayde to my husband, and she called his name Issachar. (Then said Leah, God hath/has given me my reward, because I gave my maid to my husband, and she called his name Issachar. )
Cvdl& sayde: God hath rewarded me, because I gaue my mayden vnto my husbande, and she called him Isachar. (& said: God hath/has rewarded me, because I gave my maiden unto my husband, and she called him Isachar.)
Wycland seide, God yaf meede to me, for Y yaf myn handmayde to myn hosebond; and sche clepide his name Isacar. (and said, God gave meede to me, for I gave mine handmaid to mine husband; and she called his name Isacar.)
Luthund sprach: GOtt hat mir gelohnet, daß ich meine Magd meinem Manne gegeben habe. Und hieß ihn Isaschar. (and spoke: God has to_me gelohnet, that I my Magd my man given have. And was_called him/it Isaschar.)
ClVget ait: Dedit Deus mercedem mihi, quia dedi ancillam meam viro meo: appellavitque nomen ejus Issachar. (and he_said: Dedit God mercedem mihi, because dedi maidservant meam to_the_man meo: appellavitque nomen his Issachar. )
Some languages must translate the noun reward as a verb. Do what is best in your language.
אֲשֶׁר נָתַ֥תִּי שִׁפְחָתִ֖י לְאִישִׁ֑י
which/who I_give maid,my to,husband,my
Alternate translation: “for giving my servant to my husband as another wife.”
וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ
and=she/it_called/named his/its=name
Make sure the way you translate his name refers here to Leah’s baby son, not to her husband or God (who were both mentioned earlier in this verse). Alternate translation: “So she called him” or “So she gave him the name”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
