Genesis 30:9
Leah was thinking, “For a long time I did not give birth to a child. I will give my working woman to my husband. She will get a child for me.”
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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
10Therefore Zilpah gave birth to a male child for Jacob.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3After that Sarai gave that woman Hagar to Abram for a wife.
Genesis 29:35After that she got another child, a male. She said to God, “Thank you, God. I will praise you.” So she named that child Judah. After that she did not have any more children for a long time.
Genesis 30:17God listened to Leah, after that she became pregnant. After that she got another child, a male.
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 →