and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
Here is, I. Leah fruitful again, after she had, for some time, left off bearing. Jacob, it should seem, associated more with Rachel than with Leah. The law of Moses supposes it a common case that, if a man had two wives, one would be beloved and the other hated, Deu 21:15.
Commenting on Genesis 30:14-24
Give me my wives,.... His two wives, Leah and Rachel, and the two maids, Bilhah and Zilpah, which he had given him for wives also; he desires leave not to have them, but to take them away with him: and my children; his twelve children; he did not desire his father-in- law to take any of them, and keep them for him, but was desirous...
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: (g) Because fruitfulness came as God's blessing, who said "Increase and multiply", barrenness was counted as a curse.