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


In Context

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.

19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

20 Leah said, |God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.| She named him Zebulun.

Genesis 30:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:18Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:18And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:18And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:18and Leah saith, 'God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:18And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.