Genesis 30:14-16

New Catholic Bible

¹⁴ Around the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes,^[a] and he brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me a little of your son’s mandrakes.”

¹⁵ But Leah answered, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Why do you want to take away my son’s mandrakes as well?” Rachel answered, “Then he can lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

¹⁶ That night, when Jacob arrived from the fields, Leah went out to him and said to him, “You must sleep with me because I paid for the right to have you with my son’s mandrakes.” Thus, he slept with her that night.