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16 So that evening, as Jacob was coming home from the fields, Leah went out to meet him. “You must come and sleep with me tonight!” she said. “I have paid for you with some mandrakes that my son found.” So that night he slept with Leah. 17 And God answered Leah’s prayers. She became pregnant again and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob. 18 She named him Issachar,[a] for she said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife.”

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  1. 30:18 Issachar sounds like a Hebrew term that means “reward.”

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