God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. The divine listening to Leah in the middle of this household dysfunction is another expression of God's attention to the overlooked. God listened — the same language as the naming of Simeon in Genesis 29:33. The application: God's listening is not conditioned on the quality of the relational context. He listens to Leah in the middle of her negotiated night with Jacob.

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