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16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have certainly paid your hire with my son’s mandrakes. So he slept with her that night.

17 And God heeded Leah’s [prayer], and she conceived and bore Jacob [her] fifth son.

18 Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar [hired].

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