11. Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she called his name Gad.
12. Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave Jacob a second son.
13. Then Leah said, “Happy am I, for women will call me happy.” So she called his name Asher.
14. At the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben went 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. Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”So Rachel said, “All right, he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
16. When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep with me, because I have paid for you with my son’s mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night.
17. God listened to Leah, and she conceived and gave Jacob a fifth son.
18. Leah said, “God has given me my reward because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.
19. Leah conceived again and gave Jacob a sixth son.
20. Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have given him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.
21. Afterwards she gave birth to a daughter and called her name Dinah.
22. Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
23. She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
24. And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord will add to me another son.”
25. When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place, to my country.
26. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know the service that I have given you.”
27. Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. For I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”