Genesis 30:18 - Exposition

And Leah said, God —Elohim; a proof of the lower religious consciousness into which Leah had fallen (Hengstenberg), though perhaps on the above hypothesis an evidence of her piety and faith (Keil, Lange)— hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband :— i . e . as a reward for my self-denial (Keil, Murphy); an exclamation in which appears Leah's love for Jacob (Lange), if not also a tacit acknowledgment that she had her fears lest she may have sinned in asking him to wed Zilpah (Rosenmüller)— and she called his name Issachar— "There is Reward," or "There is Hire;" containing a double allusion to her hire of Jacob and her reward for Zilpah