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Leah and Reuben
How Leah and Reuben are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Leah was a parent of Reuben.
Reuben was Leah's firstborn, named when she said, "now therefore my husband will love me." Later he found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother.
Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben
Genesis 29:32, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 30:14-16
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 29:32
32And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
Genesis 30:14-16
14And 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.
15And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.
16And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
King James Version