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Genesis 30:14 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 14
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.Genesis 30:14 · King James Version
Genesis 30:14 in context
12And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14And 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.
15And 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.
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- mandrakesdûwdaya boiler or basketH1736 →
- harvestqâtsîyrseveredH7105 →
- broughtbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- ReubenRᵉʼûwbênReuben, a son of JacobH7205 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- wheatchiṭṭâhwheat, whether the grain or the plantH2406 →
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Here is, I. Leah fruitful again, after she had, for some time, left off bearing. Jacob, it should seem, associated more with Rachel than with Leah. The law of Moses supposes it a common case that, if a man had two wives, one would be beloved and the other hated, Deu 21:15.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-24