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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 30, Verse 9

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And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
King James Version
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
American Standard Version
When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.
New English Translation
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
World English Bible
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
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And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
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And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
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And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
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And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
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And 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.
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And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
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And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
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And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.