Genesis 30:4
So she gave him Bilhah her slave-girl for a wife, and Jacob slept with her.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
In Context
5When Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son,
Cross References
Genesis 16:3so she took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, after Abram had lived for ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife
Genesis 22:24And his concubine whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maaeah.
Genesis 25:6But to the sons of his concubines, Abraham had given gifts while he was still alive, and had sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.
Genesis 33:2He put the slave-girls and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and her son Joseph in the rear.
Genesis 46:25These seven are the sons of Bilhah, the slave-girl whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore seven children to Jacob.
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 →