Genesis 49:14

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.