When Leah saw that she had left bearing,.... For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done;
she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife: in this she was less excusable than Rachel, since she had four children of her own, and therefore might have been content without desiring others by her maid; nor had she long left off bearing, and therefore had no reason to give up hope of having any more.
When Leah saw that she had left bearing,.... For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done;
she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife: in this she was less excusable than Rachel, since she had four children of her own, and therefore might have been content without desiring others by her maid; nor had she long left off bearing, and therefore had no reason to give up hope of having any more.