Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 30:23

23 And she conceived and bare a son, and said, God hath taken away my reproach :

Barrenness was then accounted a great reproach, especially in that race, because it was a kind of curse, whereby such persons were excluded both from the first and general blessing of fructification given to all mankind, Gen. 1. 28. and from the special blessing given to Abraham for the multiplication of his feed; and from all hopes of being the progenitors of the blessed Messias.