People’s Open Bible
Testament of Issachar 2
Angel Explains Wives' Blessings
Open in the reader →1Then an angel of the Lord appeared to Jacob, saying, “Rachel will bear children, because she despised intercourse with a husband and chose self-control.”
2And had Leah my mother not given over the two fruits in exchange for intercourse, she would have been about to bear eight sons; for this reason she bore six, and Rachel bore the two — because in the mandrakes the Lord visited her.
Composed from original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez manuscripts, rendered in multiple passes to stay as close to the originals as possible. About this project