When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Leah ... took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. Leah took the same course as Rachel had done with her own maid, who bore a son; and this child, being adopted by Leah, received the name of Gad.
A troop cometh - [Hebrew, baagaad (H1410); Septuagint, en tuchee, in good luck, fortunately, or (Qeri') baa' (H935) gaad (H1409), prosperity, good fortune cometh.] This was Leah's exclamation on the birth of Zilpah's son, and the reason assigned for his being called Gad. The ancient Paraphrasist, Jonathan, and Onkelos read, 'the happy star, or good fortune is come' [cf. Isaiah 65:11, Hebrew text, where allusion is made to two Babylonian idols-gaad, the god of Fortune, and mªniy, the god of Destiny. Monsieur Jurieu says, 'that these two were believed to be the stars that overruled nativities' ('Hist. des dogmes et des cultes,' p. 701; also Henderson's Isaiah 65:11)].