Genesis 30:4
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jakob went in unto her,
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
In Context
5and Bilhah conceived, and bare to Jakob a son.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3And Sara wife of Abram took Hagar her handmaid, the Mizretha, at the end of ten years of Abram’s dwelling in the land of Kenaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife;
Genesis 22:24And his concubine, whose name was Reuma, she also bare Tebach, and Gacham, and Tachash, and Maaka.
Genesis 25:6But to the sons of the concubine of Abraham gave Abraham portions, and sent them from his son Izhak, while he yet lived, eastward in the land of the sunrise.
Genesis 33:2And he set the concubines and their children first, and Leah and her children after, and Rahel and Joseph after them.
Genesis 46:25These are the children of Billah, whom Laban gave to Rahel his daughter, and she bare them to Jakob; all the souls seven.
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 →