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12 Then Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore a second son to Jacob; 13 and Leah said, “What good fortune, because women will call me fortunate!” So she named him Asher.[a]

14 One day, during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and came upon some mandrakes[b] in the field which he brought home to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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  1. 30:13 Asher: explained by the term be’oshri, lit., “in my good fortune,” i.e., “what good fortune,” and by the term ye’ashsheruni, “they call me fortunate.”
  2. 30:14 Mandrakes: an herb whose root was thought to promote conception. The Hebrew word for mandrakes, duda’im, has erotic connotations, since it sounds like the words daddayim (“breasts”) and dodim (“sexual pleasure”).

12 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me(A) happy.”(B) So she named him Asher.[a](C)

14 During wheat harvest,(D) Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants,(E) which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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  1. Genesis 30:13 Asher means happy.