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The Mandrakes Exchange
Genesis 30:14-21
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And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.
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She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.
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And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.
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And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son:
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And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
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And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,
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And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.
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After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.
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