Genesis 30:4
She gave her personal maid Bilhah to him as a wife and Jacob slept with her.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
In Context
5Bilhah became pregnant and had a son for Jacob.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3So Sarai, Abram's wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband as his wife. Abram had been living in the land of Canaan for ten years when this happened.
Genesis 22:24In addition, Reumah his concubine had Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them to live in the east, well away from Isaac.
Genesis 33:2He placed the two personal maids with their children first, then Leah and her children, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Genesis 46:25These are the sons of Jacob that Bilhah had, the servant given by Laban to his daughter Rachel, a total of seven children and grandchildren.
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 →