Genesis 24:44
24:44 Then she will reply to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’
Genesis 24:46
24:46 She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.
Genesis 29:33
29:33 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, 1 he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon. 2
Genesis 30:30
30:30 Indeed, 3 you had little before I arrived, 4 but now your possessions have increased many times over. 5 The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. 6 But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” 7
Genesis 36:7
36:7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled 8 was not able to support them because of their livestock.
1 tn Heb “hated.” See the note on the word “unloved” in v. 31.
2 sn The name Simeon (שִׁמְעוֹן, shim’on) is derived from the verbal root שָׁמַע (shama’) and means “hearing.” The name is appropriate since it is reminder that the Lord “heard” about Leah’s unloved condition and responded with pity.
3 tn Or “for.”
4 tn Heb “before me.”
5 tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”
6 tn Heb “at my foot.”
7 tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”
8 tn Heb “land of their settlements.”