Genesis Chapter 29 verse 31 Holy Bible
And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren.
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Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.
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And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
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And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.
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Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - And when the Lord saw - literally, and Jehovah saw. As Eve's son was obtained from Jehovah (Genesis 4:1), and Jehovah visited Sarah (Genesis 21:1), and was entreated for Rebekah (Genesis 25:21), so here he again interposes in connection with the onward development of the holy seed by giving children to Jacob s wives. The present section (vers. 31-35) is by Davidson, Kalisch, and others assigned to the Jehovist, by Tuch left undetermined, and by Colenso in several parts ascribed to the Elohist. Kalisch thinks the contents of this section must have found a place in the earlier of the two documents - that Leah was hated, - i.e. less loved (cf. Malachi 1:3) - he opened her womb (cf. 1 Samuel 1:5, 6; Psalm 127:3): but Rachel was barren - as Sarai (Genesis 11:30) and Rebekah (Genesis 25:21) had been. The fruitfulness of Leah and the sterility of Rachel were designed not so much to equalize the conditions of the sisters, the one having beauty and the other children (Lange), or to punish Jacob for his partiality (Keil), or to discourage the admiration of mere beauty (Kalisch), but to prove that "the origin of Israel was to be a work not of nature, but of grace" (Keil).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersBIRTH OF JACOB'S ELEVEN SONS, AND HIS DAUGHTER.(31) Leah was hated.--We must not soften this down too much; for plainly Leah was not the object of love at all. It was her fruitfulness which gave her value in her husband's eyes, and when this ceased, Jacob utterly neglected her (Genesis 30:15).
