Genesis 30:4
And she gave him Balla her maid, for a wife to him; and Jacob went in to her.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
In Context
5And Balla, Rachel's maid, conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Cross References
Genesis 16:3So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.
Genesis 25:6But to the sons of his concubines Abraam gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the east into the country of the east.
Genesis 33:2And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Genesis 46:25These are the sons of Balla, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, who bore these to Jacob; 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 →