Genesis 30:9
Leah knew that she could not have any more children and so she gave her working girl named Zilpah to Jacob to be another wife for him. She did this so that she could have another baby that way.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
In Context
10So Jacob slept with Zilpah, Leah's working girl and she had a baby boy.
Cross References
Genesis 29:35Leah had another son and she named him Judah and said, “I will say good things about God.” Then Leah stopped having any more children.
Genesis 30:17God was kind to Leah and gave her baby number 5.
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 →