17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:18 Issachar sounds like the Hebrew for wages, or hire

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