Genesis 30:18
And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ait : Dedit Deus mercedem mihi, quia dedi ancillam meam viro meo : appellavitque nomen ejus Issachar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Λεία Δέδωκέν μοι ὁ θεὸς τὸν μισθόν μου ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἔδωκα τὴν παιδίσκην μου τῷ ἀνδρί μου· καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰσσαχάρ, ὅ ἐστιν Μισθός.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶר לֵאָ֗ה נָתַ֤ן אֱלֹהִים֙ שְׂכָרִ֔י אֲשֶׁר נָתַ֥תִּי שִׁפְחָתִ֖י לְאִישִׁ֑י וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ יִשָּׂשכָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Issachar, "the reward of the man, or husband." (Calmet)
She might allude also to the reward she had obtained for her mandrakes. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.