Genesis 30:4

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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In The King James Version

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

In Context

3Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

5And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:3So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

Genesis 22:24And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

Genesis 25:6But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.

Genesis 33:2He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

Genesis 46:25These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

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 →

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