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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 30:9

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When Leah saw that she had left bearing, etc.] For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done; she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife: in this she was less excusable than Rachel, since she had four children of her own, and therefore might have been content without desiring others by her maid; nor had she long left off bearing, and therefore had no reason to give up hope of having any more.
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