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16 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, ‘You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.’ So he lay with her that night. 17 And God heeded Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, ‘God has given me my hire[a] because I gave my maid to my husband’; so she named him Issachar.

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  1. Genesis 30:18 Heb sakar

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