When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
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Interpretation
Rachel envied her sister: envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more hateful to God, or more hurtful to our neighbours and ourselves. She considered not that God made the difference, and that in other things she had the advantage.
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This thought runs through Genesis 30:9-13.
Glossary
- Leah Person
- Weary, the eldest daughter of Laban, and sister of Rachel ( Gen. 29:16 ). Jacob took her to wife through a deceit of her father ( Gen. 29:23 ). She was “tender-eyed” (17).
- Zilpah Person
- Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher ( Gen. 30:9-13 ).