Genesis 30:4
She gave him Bilhah [Bashful] her servant as wife, and Jacob [Supplanter] went in to her.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
In Context
5Bilhah [Bashful] conceived, and bore Jacob [Supplanter] a son.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3Sarai [Mockery], Avram [Exalted father]’s wife, took Hagar [Flight] the Egyptian [person from Abode of slavery], her servant, after Avram [Exalted father] had lived ten years in the land of Canaan [Humbled], and gave her to Avram [Exalted father] her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 22:24His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. 1 Haftarah Vayera ·Taking leave· ·He appeared·: 1 M'lakhim Bet / 2 King 4:1-37 (A); 4:1-23 (S) 1 B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Luke 2:1-38
Genesis 25:6but to the sons of Abraham [Father of a multitude]’s concubines, Abraham [Father of a multitude] gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac [Laughter] his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
Genesis 33:2He put the servants and their children in front, Leah [Weary] and her children after, and Rachel [Ewe sheep] and Joseph [May he add] at the rear.
Genesis 46:25These are the sons of Bilhah [Bashful], whom Laban [White] gave to Rachel [Ewe sheep], his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob [Supplanter]: all the souls were 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 →