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13 Leah exclaimed, “I'm happy now, and all the women will say how happy I am.” So she named him Asher.[a]

Love Flowers

14 During the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some love flowers[b] and took them to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah for some of them, 15 but Leah said, “It's bad enough that you stole my husband! Now you want my son's love flowers too.”

“All right,” Rachel answered. “Let me have the flowers, and you can sleep with Jacob tonight.”

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Footnotes

  1. 30.13 Asher: In Hebrew “Asher” means “happy.”
  2. 30.14 love flowers: Also called “mandrakes,” a flowering plant that was thought to give sexual powers.

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