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Verse

RBT Translation:
And she is conceiving again, and is bearing a builder, and is saying, `Now is the Footstep,958 enjoined is my man toward me, for I have born to-himself three builders,` upon an upright his name has been called-out Joined.959
LITV Translation:
And she conceived again and bore a son. And she said, Now, this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne to him three sons. So his name was called Levi.
ESV Translation:
Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And she conceived yet again, and bore a son, and said, In the present time my husband will be with me, for I have born him three sons; therefore she called his name, Levi.

Footnotes

958

Hebrew עַתָּ֤ה הַפָּ֑עַם, atah ha-paam. Now [is] the Step. See note on Genesis 2:23. LXX translates this in the present time.

959

Levi means attached, joined. Strong’s #3867.