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Rachel said to Leah, &#8220Please give me some of your son&#8217s mandrakes.&#8221 <a href="/nlt/genesis/30.htm">New Living Translation</a> One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/esv/genesis/30.htm">English Standard Version</a> In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/bsb/genesis/30.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/kjv/genesis/30.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/genesis/30.htm">New King James Version</a> Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/nasb_/genesis/30.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrake fruits in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/nasb/genesis/30.htm">NASB 1995</a> Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, &#8220Please give me some of your son&#8217s mandrakes.&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/genesis/30.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/lsb/genesis/30.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/amp/genesis/30.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Now at the time of wheat harvest Reuben [the eldest child] went and found some mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/csb/genesis/30.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/hcsb/genesis/30.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, &#8220Please give me some of your son&#8217s mandrakes.&#8221 <a href="/asv/genesis/30.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/genesis/30.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> During the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some love flowers and took them to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah for some of them, <a href="/erv/genesis/30.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/genesis/30.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrakes. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." <a href="/gnt/genesis/30.htm">Good News Translation</a> During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." <a href="/isv/genesis/30.htm">International Standard Version</a> Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel told Leah, "Please give me your son's mandrakes." <a href="/msb/genesis/30.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, ?Please give me some of your son?s mandrakes.? <a href="/net/genesis/30.htm">NET Bible</a> At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes." <a href="/nheb/genesis/30.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." <a href="/wbt/genesis/30.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And Reuben went, in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. <a href="/web/genesis/30.htm">World English Bible</a> Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/genesis/30.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.” <a href="/ylt/genesis/30.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest, and findeth love-apples in the field, and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother, and Rachel saith unto Leah, 'Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son.' <a href="/slt/genesis/30.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And Reuben will go in the day of the harvest of wheat, and will find apples of mandrakes in the field, and he will bring them to Leah his mother: and Rachel will say to Leah, Give now to me of thy son's apples of mandrakes.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/genesis/30.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes. <a href="/cpdv/genesis/30.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, “Give me a portion of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/nabre/genesis/30.htm">New American Bible</a> One day, during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and came upon some mandrakes in the field which he brought home to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” <a href="/nrsvce/genesis/30.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/genesis/30.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And Reuben went at the time of the wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field and brought them; to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me some of your son's mandrakes. <a href="/hpbt/genesis/30.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And Rubyl went on in the days of the harvest of wheat and he found mandrakes in a field and he brought them to Leah his mother, and Rakhyl said to Leah, “Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/genesis/30.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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.' <a href="/sep/genesis/30.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And Ruben went in the day of barley-harvest, and found apples of mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Lea; and Rachel said to Lea her sister, Give me of thy son's mandrakes. <a href="/parallel/genesis/30-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=7282" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/genesis/30.htm">Gad and Asher</a> …13Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher. 14<a href="/hebrew/2406.htm" title="2406: ḥiṭ·ṭîm (N-fp) -- Wheat. Of uncertain derivation; wheat, whether the grain or the plant.">Now during the wheat</a> <a href="/hebrew/7105.htm" title="7105: qə·ṣîr- (N-msc) -- From qatsar; severed, i.e. Harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb.">harvest,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7205.htm" title="7205: rə·’ū·ḇên (N-proper-ms) -- From the imperative of ra'ah and ben; see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob.">Reuben</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: bî·mê (Prep-b:: N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: way·yê·leḵ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">went out</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: way·yim·ṣā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To attain to, find. ">and found</a> <a href="/hebrew/1736.htm" title="1736: ḏū·ḏā·’îm (N-mp) -- Mandrake. From duwd; a boiler or basket; also the mandrake.">some mandrakes</a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: baś·śā·ḏeh (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">in the field.</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: way·yā·ḇê (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">When he brought</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">his mother,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3812.htm" title="3812: lê·’āh (N-proper-fs) -- Weary, a wife of Jacob. From la'ah; weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7354.htm" title="7354: rā·ḥêl (N-proper-fs) -- A wife of Jacob. The same as rachel; Rachel, a wife of Jacob.">Rachel</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: wat·tō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">begged</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3812.htm" title="3812: lê·’āh (N-proper-fs) -- Weary, a wife of Jacob. From la'ah; weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob.">Leah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4994.htm" title="4994: nā (Interjection) -- I (we) pray, now. ">“Please</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: tə·nî- (V-Qal-Imp-fs) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">give me</a> <a href="/hebrew/lî (Prep:: 1cs) -- ">some of</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nêḵ (N-msc:: 2fs) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">your son’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/1736.htm" title="1736: mid·dū·ḏā·’ê (Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Mandrake. From duwd; a boiler or basket; also the mandrake.">mandrakes.”</a> 15But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/numbers/11-5.htm">Numbers 11:5</a> We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. <a href="/deuteronomy/33-14.htm">Deuteronomy 33:14</a> with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons, <a href="/songs/7-13.htm">Song of Solomon 7:13</a> The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved. <a href="/2_kings/4-39.htm">2 Kings 4:39</a> One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. <a href="/ruth/2-17.htm">Ruth 2:17</a> So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley. <a href="/exodus/16-31.htm">Exodus 16:31</a> Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. <a href="/1_samuel/25-18.htm">1 Samuel 25:18</a> Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys <a href="/2_samuel/17-28.htm">2 Samuel 17:28-29</a> They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, / honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.” <a href="/ezekiel/47-12.htm">Ezekiel 47:12</a> Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.” <a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm">Isaiah 17:10-11</a> For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— / though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain. <a href="/matthew/13-44.htm">Matthew 13:44</a> The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field. <a href="/john/6-31.htm">John 6:31</a> Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” <a href="/john/6-49.htm">John 6:49-51</a> Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. / This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. / I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.” <a href="/acts/7-11.htm">Acts 7:11-12</a> Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food. / When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit. <a href="/romans/14-17.htm">Romans 14:17</a> For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of your son's mandrakes.A.<a href="/songs/7-13.htm">Song of Solomon 7:13</a> The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.Give me.<a href="/genesis/25-30.htm">Genesis 25:30</a> And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/29-2.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/26-12.htm">Findeth</a> <a href="/genesis/27-20.htm">Found</a> <a href="/genesis/8-22.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/genesis/30-13.htm">Leah</a> <a href="/songs/7-13.htm">Mandrakes</a> <a href="/genesis/28-7.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/genesis/28-8.htm">Please</a> <a href="/genesis/30-8.htm">Rachel</a> <a href="/genesis/29-32.htm">Reuben</a> <a href="/genesis/27-31.htm">Son's</a> <a href="/genesis/30-9.htm">Time</a> <a href="/revelation/18-13.htm">Wheat</a> <a href="/1_samuel/12-17.htm">Wheat-Harvest</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/30-16.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/37-15.htm">Findeth</a> <a href="/genesis/30-27.htm">Found</a> <a href="/genesis/41-34.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/genesis/30-16.htm">Leah</a> <a href="/genesis/30-15.htm">Mandrakes</a> <a href="/genesis/32-11.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/genesis/30-27.htm">Please</a> <a href="/genesis/30-15.htm">Rachel</a> <a href="/genesis/35-22.htm">Reuben</a> <a href="/genesis/30-15.htm">Son's</a> <a href="/genesis/30-20.htm">Time</a> <a href="/exodus/9-32.htm">Wheat</a> <a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">Wheat-Harvest</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 30</div>1. <a href="/genesis/30-1.htm">Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob.</a> 5. <a href="/genesis/30-5.htm">Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali.</a> 9. <a href="/genesis/30-9.htm">Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher.</a> 14. <a href="/genesis/30-14.htm">Reuben finds mandrakes, </a> 15. <a href="/genesis/30-15.htm">with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel.</a> 17. <a href="/genesis/30-17.htm">Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah.</a> 22. <a href="/genesis/30-22.htm">Rachel bears Joseph.</a> 25. <a href="/genesis/30-25.htm">Jacob desires to depart.</a> 27. <a href="/genesis/30-27.htm">Laban detains him on a new agreement.</a> 37. <a href="/genesis/30-37.htm">Jacob's policy, whereby he becomes rich.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/30.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/genesis/30.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Now during the wheat harvest The timing of the wheat harvest places this event in the late spring or early summer, a period of agricultural significance in ancient Canaan. The wheat harvest was a time of gathering and celebration, often associated with the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), which later became Pentecost in the Christian tradition. This context highlights the agrarian lifestyle of the patriarchs and sets the stage for the events that follow.Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field Reuben, the firstborn son of Leah and Jacob, plays a pivotal role in this narrative. The mandrake plant, known for its human-like root shape, was believed in ancient cultures to possess fertility-enhancing properties. This belief is reflected in the Hebrew term "dudaim," which is associated with love and fertility. The finding of mandrakes by Reuben introduces a theme of desire and competition between Leah and Rachel, Jacob's wives.When he brought them to his mother Reuben's action of bringing the mandrakes to Leah indicates his loyalty and affection towards his mother. This gesture also underscores the family dynamics and the ongoing rivalry between Leah and Rachel for Jacob's affection and the blessing of children. The mandrakes become a symbol of hope for Leah, who desires to gain favor and bear more children.Rachel begged Leah Rachel's plea to Leah reveals her desperation and longing for children, as she had not yet borne any sons for Jacob at this point. This moment of vulnerability highlights the intense personal and familial struggles within Jacob's household. Rachel's request also reflects the cultural importance placed on childbearing and the status it conferred upon women in ancient times.“Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” Rachel's request for the mandrakes signifies her belief in their supposed fertility benefits. This interaction between Rachel and Leah is a microcosm of their ongoing rivalry and the complex relationships within the family. The mandrakes serve as a bargaining tool, leading to further negotiations between the sisters. This narrative foreshadows the eventual birth of more children to both Leah and Rachel, continuing the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham regarding his descendants.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/r/reuben.htm">Reuben</a> The firstborn son of Jacob and Leah. In this verse, he finds mandrakes during the wheat harvest. 2. <a href="/topical/l/leah.htm">Leah</a> The first wife of Jacob and mother of Reuben. She receives the mandrakes from her son. 3. <a href="/topical/r/rachel.htm">Rachel</a> The second wife of Jacob and sister of Leah. She desires the mandrakes found by Reuben. 4. <a href="/topical/m/mandrakes.htm">Mandrakes</a> A plant believed in ancient times to have fertility-enhancing properties. It plays a central role in the interaction between Leah and Rachel. 5. <a href="/topical/w/wheat_harvest.htm">Wheat Harvest</a> The time of year when this event occurs, indicating a season of gathering and abundance.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/d/desire_and_rivalry.htm">Desire and Rivalry</a> The account highlights the intense rivalry between Leah and Rachel, driven by their desires for love and children. This can lead to unhealthy competition and strife within families. <a href="/topical/c/cultural_beliefs_and_faith.htm">Cultural Beliefs and Faith</a> The belief in mandrakes as a fertility aid reflects how cultural practices can influence personal faith. Believers should discern between cultural beliefs and reliance on God's provision. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_family_dynamics.htm">God's Sovereignty in Family Dynamics</a> Despite human schemes and desires, God's plan unfolds in the lives of Jacob's family. Trusting in God's timing and sovereignty is crucial. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_children_in_biblical_narratives.htm">The Role of Children in Biblical Narratives</a> Children are often seen as blessings and fulfillments of God's promises. This account invites reflection on the value and purpose of children in God's plan.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_30.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 30</a> <a href="/q/are_mandrakes_scientifically_linked_to_fertility.htm">In Genesis 30:14–16, how credible is the account of mandrakes supposedly improving fertility from a scientific standpoint? </a> <a href="/q/genesis_30__align_or_conflict_with_god's_role.htm">How do these events in Genesis 30 align or conflict with other biblical texts that describe God’s involvement in fertility and inheritance?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_rachel_conceive_in_genesis_30.htm">In Genesis 30:22–24, why does Rachel’s miraculous conception coincide with this specific moment, and is there any historical evidence for such events? </a> <a href="/q/what_are_genesis_30_14's_mandrakes.htm">What are the mandrakes mentioned in Genesis 30:14?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/30.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) Reuben went . . . --When Leah ceased from bearing, there would be a considerable interval before she and Jacob gave up all expectation of further seed by her. Slowly and unwillingly she would substitute Zilpah for herself, and there would then be a further period of three or four years, to give time for the birth of Gad and Asher: and as Jacob at this time utterly neglected Leah, we do not know but that even a longer space intervened. Moreover, Jacob had other daughters besides Dinah (<a href="/genesis/37-35.htm" title="And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.">Genesis 37:35</a>), and probably by these handmaids. We may well believe, therefore, that Reuben at this timewas from fifteen to twenty years of age, and might be trusted to wander at his will over the wild uncultivated waste.In the days of wheat harvest.--This is mentioned to fix the time, namely, early in May. As Laban led a settled life, he may have grown wheat, as Jacob did in Canaan (<a href="/genesis/37-7.htm" title="For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, see, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.">Genesis 37:7</a>), but mandrakes would most assuredly not be found on tilled land.Mandrakes.--Heb., love-apples. It is generally agreed that the fruit meant is that of the Atropa mandragora, which ripens in May, and is of the size of a small plum, round, yellow, and full of soft pulp. The plant belongs to the same family (the Solanace?) as the potato, and the egg plant, the fruit of which is largely used as a vegetable in North America.The mandragora has a long carrot-shaped root, from which grows a mass of leaves of a greyish colour, not unlike those of the primrose, but larger, and which lie flat upon the ground, and from among them rise blossoms, singly, of a rich purple colour. Canon Tristram (Nat. Hist. of Bible, p. 467) says that the fruit is not unpleasant, and that he has often eaten of it without experiencing any soporific or other bad effect. But in the East it has been, and is, the subject of many superstitions, and its Hebrew name arose from the popular belief that it was a specific against barrenness. Rachel, therefore, who still hankered after children of her own, was anxious to obtain some of the fruit, and Leah consents only upon the proffered condition that Jacob shall spend the night in her tent.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/30.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 14. - And Reuben (at this time four or five years old) went (probably accompanying the reapers) in the days of wheat harvest (in the beginning of May), and found mandrakes - דּוּדָאים, μῆλα μαδραγορῶν, (LXX., Josephus), apples of the mandragora, an herb resembling belladonna, with a root like a carrot, having white and reddish blossoms of a sweet smell, and with yellow odoriferous apples, ripening in May and June, and supposed, according to Oriental superstition, to possess the virtue of conciliating love and promoting fruitfulness (vide Gesenius, p. 191, and cf. Rosenmüller's 'Seholia,' and Kalisch in loco) - in the field (when at his childish play), and brought them unto his mother Leah (which a son of more mature years would not have done). Then Rachel (not exempt from the prevailing superstition) said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes (in the hopes that they would remove her sterility). <a href="/commentaries/genesis/30-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Now during the wheat חִטִּ֗ים (ḥiṭ·ṭîm) Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2406.htm">Strong's 2406: </a> Wheat harvest, קְצִיר־ (qə·ṣîr-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7105.htm">Strong's 7105: </a> Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb Reuben רְאוּבֵ֜ן (rə·’ū·ḇên) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7205.htm">Strong's 7205: </a> Reuben -- 'behold a son!' oldest son of Jacob, also his desc went out וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ (way·yê·leḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk and found וַיִּמְצָ֤א (way·yim·ṣā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present some mandrakes דֽוּדָאִים֙ (ḏū·ḏā·’îm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1736.htm">Strong's 1736: </a> A boiler, basket, the mandrake in the field. בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה (baś·śā·ḏeh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> Field, land When he brought וַיָּבֵ֣א (way·yā·ḇê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go them to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to his mother, אִמּ֑וֹ (’im·mōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> A mother, ) Rachel רָחֵל֙ (rā·ḥêl) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7354.htm">Strong's 7354: </a> Rachel -- a wife of Jacob begged וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (wat·tō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say Leah, לֵאָ֔ה (lê·’āh) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3812.htm">Strong's 3812: </a> Leah -- 'weary', a wife of Jacob “Please נָ֣א (nā) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4994.htm">Strong's 4994: </a> I pray', 'now', 'then' give me תְּנִי־ (tə·nî-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set some of לִ֔י (lî) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> your son’s בְּנֵֽךְ׃ (bə·nêḵ) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son mandrakes.” מִדּוּדָאֵ֖י (mid·dū·ḏā·’ê) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1736.htm">Strong's 1736: </a> A boiler, basket, the mandrake <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/genesis/30-14.htm">Genesis 30:14 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/genesis/30-14.htm">OT Law: Genesis 30:14 Reuben went in the days of wheat (Gen. 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