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15 But [Leah] answered, Is it not enough that you have taken my husband without your taking away my son’s [a]mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with you tonight [in exchange] for your son’s mandrakes.

16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have certainly paid your hire with my son’s mandrakes. So he slept with her that night.

17 And God heeded Leah’s [prayer], and she conceived and bore Jacob [her] fifth son.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:15 Mandrakes were superstitiously supposed to excite and win love.

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