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12 Then Zilpah produced a second son, 13 and Leah named him Asher (meaning “Happy”), for she said, “What joy is mine! The other women will think me blessed indeed!”

14 One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes[a] growing in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel begged Leah to give some of them to her.

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  1. Genesis 30:14 mandrakes, a leafy plant eaten by peasant women who supposed this would aid them in becoming pregnant.

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