What about the mandrakes? Mandrakes were considered at this time a help for women to get pregnant. Leah was upset that her sister wanted them when she already had the affection of her husband and now saw this as her trying to take something else from her. God however used this incident to show that it wasn't medicine, superstition, or human manipulation that was their provision.
Here again, we see people trying to get what they want by manipulation but God is faithful to his covenant in spite of it. Yes, there comes a time when God expects his people to grow up, as it were, but the frequency of Gis mercy is amazing.
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