Cimo icilangilila ifyo Rakele na Lea bapatene ni cilya cacitike ilyo Rubene mwana Lea asangile bamandragora. Bamo batila ici cisabo cali muti wa bufyashi. Ilyo Rakele alombele ukuti bamupeko, Lea amwaswike bukali bukali ati: “Bushe kanono kuli iwe ukupoko mulume wandi? Bushe mulefwayo kupoka na bamandragora ba mwana wandi?” Bamo batila aya mashiwi yalanga ukutila Yakobo aleba pamo na Rakele inshita iikalamba sana ukucila ifyo aleba pamo na Lea. Napamo Rakele alimwene umulandu Lea abelele no bulanda, pantu amwaswike ukuti: “E co alasendamina ku mobe buno bushiku pa lwa bamandragora ba kwa mwano.” E co ilyo Yakobo aile ku ng’anda cilya cungulo, Lea amwebele ukuti: “Uleingila ku mwandi; pantu ukwashima ninkwashimina muli bamandragora ba mwana wandi.”—Ukutendeka 30:15, 16.

Bamandragora tabayafwile Rakele ukwimita. Ilyo papitile imyaka 6 ukutula apo baupanine, Rakele asukile aimita kabili afyele Yosefe, pantu Yehova “aibukishe” Rakele no kwasuka ipepo lyakwe. Nomba, e lyo calingile kuli Rakele ukusosa ukuti: “Lesa nasendo kuseebana kwandi.”—Ukutendeka 30:22-24.