Genesis 30:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That thou hast taken, &c.— From Leah's expression, thou hast taken away my husband, it rather seems as if Rachel had so engrossed all Jacob's affection, as to have withdrawn him entirely from Leah, who therefore, solicitous for more children, was the rather anxious for his company. I cannot think, says Bishop Patrick, of any good reason, either for this contention between Jacob's wives for his company, or their giving him their maid-servants to be his wives; or for Moses's taking such particular notice of all this; but only the earnest desire they had to fulfil the promise made to Abraham, that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude; and that in one Seed of his (the Messiah) all the nations of the earth should be blessed. It had been below the dignity of such a sacred history as this is, to relate such things, if there had not been something of great consideration in them. And what can that be, but chiefly the birth of the blessed Seed, which was the object of the hopes of the pious in those days? For it is evident, in respect to both Rachel and her sister, that it was children they desired: as it follows, Genesis 30:17.