During the wheat harvest season Re’uven went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Le’ah. Rachel said to Le’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes [so that I can be fertile].” She answered, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken away my husband? Do you have to take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel said, “Very well; in exchange for your son’s mandrakes, sleep with him tonight.” When Ya‘akov came in from the field in the evening, Le’ah went out to meet him and said, “You have to come and sleep with me, because I’ve hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Ya‘akov slept with her that night. God listened to Le’ah, and she conceived and bore Ya‘akov a fifth son. Le’ah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my slave-girl to my husband.” So she called him Yissakhar [hire, reward]. Le’ah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Ya‘akov. Le’ah said, “God has given me a wonderful gift. Now at last my husband will live with me, since I have borne him six sons.” And she called him Z’vulun [living together]. After this, she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah [controversy over rights]. Then God took note of Rachel, heeded her prayer and made her fertile. She conceived, had a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” She called him Yosef [may he add], saying, “May ADONAI add to me another son.”
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