12 Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women (A)have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.[a]

14 In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found (B)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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:13 Asher sounds like the Hebrew for happy

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