Genesis 30:18
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire,.... Of the mandrakes with which she had hired of Rachel a night's lodging with Jacob, and for which she had a sufficient recompense, by the son that God had given her: and she added another reason, and a very preposterous one, and shows she put a wrong construction on the blessing she received:
because I have given my maiden to my husband; which, she judged, was so well pleasing to God, that he had rewarded her with another son;
and she called his name Issachar, which signifies "hire" or "reward"; or, there is a reward, or a man of reward.
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