Genesis 49:14

New American Bible - revised edition

“Issachar is a rawboned donkey, crouching between the saddlebags.

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Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, designated by name to come and make David king.

Leah then said, “God has given me my wages for giving my maidservant to my husband”; so she named him Issachar.

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, in your expeditions, exult, Issachar, in your tents!

After Abimelech, Tola, son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, rose up to save Israel; he lived in Shamir in the mountain region of Ephraim.

When he saw how good a settled life was, and how pleasant the land, He bent his shoulder to the burden and became a toiling serf.

But they approached him and said: “We will only build sheepfolds here for our flocks and towns for our families;

The kings of the armies are in desperate flight. Every household will share the spoil,

He chose David his servant, took him from the sheepfolds.