“And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.”
Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said: now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons. So he was named Levi. Levi means attached. The third son is named from the hope — now at last — that three sons will create the attachment that love has not produced. The hope that childbearing will secure what love has not given is the hope of a woman using the available currency of her world to purchase what cannot be purchased. The application: the things we use as substitutes for love never fully substitute. Three sons and my husband will become attached — but the attachment hoped for is the love already absent.
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