Mandrake
Mandrakes were a plant whose fruit people prized, and Genesis tells a small family drama about them. Reuben found mandrakes in the field at wheat harvest and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel, who was still childless, asked for some, and the two sisters struck a bargain that settled who would spend the night with Jacob. In the Song of Solomon, “The mandrakes give a smell” among the pleasant fruits laid up for the beloved. Genesis 30:14-16 gives the whole exchange, and it shows a household where two wives competed for one man’s attention.
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Genesis
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
Song of Solomon
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.