|And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
|And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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|When the [[YHWH|L<small>ORD</small>]] saw that Leah was being hated, He opened her womb. Rachel, on the other hand, remained barren.
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|When the [[YHWH|L<small>ORD</small>]] saw that Leah was being treated as if she were nothing, He opened her womb. Rachel, on the other hand, remained barren.
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|The verb rendered "to hate" actually means "to treat as a nonentity," not "to treat as an enemy."