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17 God answered Leah's prayer. She became pregnant and gave birth to her fifth son for Jacob.
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God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 Leah said, "God has given me my reward because I gave my slave to my husband." So she named him Issachar [Reward].
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Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
19 She became pregnant again and gave birth to her sixth son for Jacob.
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Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 Leah said, "God has presented me with a beautiful present. This time my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons." So she named him Zebulun [Honor].
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Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
21 Later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
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Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
22 Then God remembered Rachel. God answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.
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Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.
23 So she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "God has taken away my disgrace."
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She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
24 She named him Joseph [May He Give Another] and said, "May the LORD give me another son."
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She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
25 After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Let me go home to my own country.
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After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.
26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I've worked, and let me go. You know how much work I've done for you."
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Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”
27 Laban replied, "Listen to me. I've learned from the signs I've seen that the LORD has blessed me because of you."
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But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
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