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Genesis 30:16, 18, 26, 28-29, 32-33

Genesis 30:16 NKJV

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

Genesis 30:18 NKJV

Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

Genesis 30:26 NKJV

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”

Genesis 30:28-29 NKJV

Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.” So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.

Genesis 30:32-33 NKJV

Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages. So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”

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