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7And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30:7 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-13)We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is, I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel ( Gen. 30:1 , 2 ), occasioned, not so much by her own barrenness as by her sister’s fruitfulness. Rebekah, the only wife of Isaac, was long childless, and yet we find no uneasiness between her and Isaac; but here, because Leah bears children, ...
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