Genesis 30:12
And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
In Context
11And Leah said, Fortunate! And she called his name Gad.
13And Leah said, Happy am I! For the daughters will call me happy. And she called his name Asher.
Cross References
Numbers 1:40Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14
Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →