16Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, |You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes.| He lay with her that night.


In Context

13 Leah said, |Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.| She named him Asher.

14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, |Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.|

15 She said to her, |Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?| Rachel said, |Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.|

16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, |You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes.| He lay with her that night.

17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

18 Leah said, |God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.| She named him Issachar.

Genesis 30:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:16And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:16So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:16And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:16And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:16And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:16And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, 'Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:16And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in to me; for surely I have hired you with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.