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Knowing The Word in Genesis 30:14-18, Mandrakes?


14 In the days of wheat harvest Reuben [as young as 6?] went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. [Mandrakes are a perennial Mediterranean plant that bears bluish flowers in winter and yellowish plum-sized fruit in summer. They were famed for arousing sexual desire and for helping barren women to conceive.] Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please [asked politely] give me some of your son's mandrakes.” 15 But she said to her [with a sharp and bitter response], “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?” Rachel [recognizing the justice of Leah’s grievance makes an offer and] said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.” 16 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” [Their relationship seems to have been reduced to a commercial level.] So he lay with her that night. 17 And God listened to Leah [showing it was he and not the mandrakes], and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

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