Those with their roots in Amalek came from Ephraim; Benjamin came with your people after you. The leaders came down from Machir, and those who carry a recruiter’s staff came from Zebulun.
But Leah replied to her, ‘Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes? ’ ‘Well then,’ Rachel said, ‘he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.’
She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, ‘At last, my husband will become attached to me because I have borne three sons for him.’ Therefore he was named Levi.
Then Saul replied, ‘Say this to David: “The king desires no other bride-price except a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.” ’ Actually, Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.