Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation 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." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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. 2256. B.C. 1748. mandrakes. The mandrake may be the Hebrew dudaim: it is so rendered by all the ancient versions, and is a species of melon, of an agreeable odour. Hasselquist, speaking of Nazareth in Galilee, says, 'What I found most remarkable at this village was the great number of mandrakes which grew in a vale below it. I had not the pleasure of seeing this plant in blossom, the fruit now (May 5th, O. S.) hanging ripe on the stem, which lay withered on the ground. From the season in which this mandrake blossoms and ripens fruit, one might form a conjecture that it was Rachel's dudaim. These were brought her in the wheat harvest, which in Galilee is in the month of May, about this time, and the mandrake was now in fruit.' The Abbee Mariti describes it as growing 'low like a lettuce, to which its leaves have a great resemblance, except that they have a dark green colour. The flowers are purple, and the root is for the most part forked. The fruit, when ripe in the beginning of May, is of the size and colour of a small apple, exceedingly ruddy, and of a most agreeable odour. Our guide thought us fools for suspecting it to be unwholesome.' Songs 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee. Give me. Genesis 25:30 Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom. Context Gad and Asher…13And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser. 14And 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.15She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.… Cross References Genesis 30:15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes. Genesis 30:16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night. Songs 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee. Jump to Previous Field Findeth Found Harvest Leah Mandrakes Mother Please Rachel Reuben Son's Time Wheat Wheat-HarvestJump to Next Field Findeth Found Harvest Leah Mandrakes Mother Please Rachel Reuben Son's Time Wheat Wheat-HarvestLinks Genesis 30:14 NIVGenesis 30:14 NLT Genesis 30:14 ESV Genesis 30:14 NASB Genesis 30:14 Bible Apps Genesis 30:14 Biblia Paralela Genesis 30:14 Chinese Bible Genesis 30:14 French Bible Genesis 30:14 German Bible Alphabetical: and brought days During field fields found give harvest he his in into Leah mandrake mandrakes me mother Now of out plants Please Rachel Reuben said some son's the them Then to went wheat which your OT Law: Genesis 30:14 Reuben went in the days of wheat (Gen. Ge Gn) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |