16. When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
17. God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18. Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.
19. Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20. “God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.
21. Later, Leah bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
22. Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
23. She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my shame.”
24. She named him Joseph: “May the Lord add another son to me.”
25. After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.
26. Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.”