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Genesis 30:14

LeahRachelReuben

12 When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

13 Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.

Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

15 But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

16 When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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BSB
Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
KJV
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
WEB
Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
ASV
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son`s mandrakes.
DARBY
And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
BLB
And Reuben went in the days of the harvest of wheat, and he found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, “Please give to me [some] of the mandrakes of your son.”
ÅB
En dag i hvetehøstens tid gikk Ruben ut og fant alruner[^6] på marken og bar dem hjem til Lea, sin mor; da sa Rakel til Lea: Kjære, gi meg noen av din sønns alruner!
OTB
Under hvetehøsten gikk Ruben og fant alruner på marken, og brakte dem til sin mor Lea. Da sa Rakel til Lea: "Vær så snill å gi meg noen av din sønns alruner."
B1930
En dag i hvetehøstens tid gikk Ruben ut og fant alruner på marken og bar dem hjem til Lea, sin mor; da sa Rakel til Lea: Kjære, gi mig nogen av din sønns alruner! / < d.e. et slags plante som mentes å kunne vekke elskov og fremkalle svangerskap.>

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Cross references

  • Song of Solomon 7:13

    The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.

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  • Genesis 25:30

    He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

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