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Genesis 29:33

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And she conceived again, and bare a son (probably the following year); and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated (the birth of Reuben had obviously not answered Leah's expectations in increasing Jacob's love), he hath therefore given me this son also (She faith and piety of Leah are as conspicuous as her affection for Jacob): and she called his name Simeon—i.

e. Hearing, because God had heard that she was hated (ut supra).

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