Genesis Chapter 30 verse 18 Holy Bible
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
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Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.
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And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.
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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 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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Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
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and Leah saith, `God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - And Leah said, God - Elohim; a proof of the lower religious consciousness into which Leah had fallen (Hengstenberg), though perhaps on the above hypothesis an evidence of her piety and faith (Keil, Lange) - hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: - i.e. as a reward for my self-denial (Keil, Murphy); an exclamation in which appears Leah's love for Jacob (Lange), if not also a tacit acknowledgment that she had her fears lest she may have sinned in asking him to wed Zilpah (Rosenmüller) - and she called his name Issachar - "There is Reward," or "There is Hire;" containing a double allusion to her hire of Jacob and her reward for Zilpah
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Issachar.--Heb., there is hire. As is so often the case in Hebrew names, there is a double play in the word: for, first, it alluded to the strange fact that Jacob had been hired of Rachel by the mandrakes; but, secondly, Leah gives it a higher meaning, "for God," she says, "hath given me my hire." In her eyes the birth of her fifth son was a Divine reward for the self-sacrifice involved in giving her maid to Jacob, and which had been followed by years of neglect of herself. As, too, it is said that "God hearkened unto Leah," we may feel sure that she had prayed for God's blessing upon her re-union with her husband; for Calvin's objection that prayer would scarcely accompany such odious courses has little weight. Leah and Rachel were uneducated and untrained country women, whose sole anxiety was to have offspring. Leah was the most religious and best disciplined of the two; and the shame ideally was that she should have been forced thus to buy her husband's attentions.