Add parallel Print Page Options

13 Leah said, “What joy! The women shall call me truly happy.” Therefore, she named him Asher.

14 Around the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes,[a] and he brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me a little of your son’s mandrakes.”

15 But Leah answered, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Why do you want to take away my son’s mandrakes as well?” Rachel answered, “Then he can lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:14 Mandrakes: the ancients regarded the mandrake or mandragora as an aphrodisiac and capable of promoting pregnancy.