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Genesis 30:15

New American Bible - revised edition

Leah replied, “Was it not enough for you to take away my husband, that you must now take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel answered, “In that case Jacob may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

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One day, during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and came upon some mandrakes in the field which he brought home to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

That evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to meet him. She said, “You must have intercourse with me, because I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So that night he lay with her,

Then he said: Listen, house of David! Is it not enough that you weary human beings? Must you also weary my God?

Not only did you walk in their ways and act as abominably as they did, but in a very short time you became more corrupt in all your ways than they were.

Are you not satisfied that you have brought us here from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us perish in the wilderness, that now you must also lord it over us?

It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself;




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