Genesis 30:4

After that Jacob slept with that working woman.

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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

3Rachel said to Jacob, “That woman now, my worker, Bilhah. You two sleep together. She will get a child for me. That child will be mine.” Like that Rachel spoke to him.

5Bilhah became pregnant, she got a male child.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:3After that Sarai gave that woman Hagar to Abram for a wife.

Genesis 33:2He put the two working women and their children in the lead. Near those two he put Leah and her children, behind he put Rachel and her child Joseph.

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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