Genesis 30:4

And she gave to him Bilhah into matrimony; and when her husband had entered [in] to her,

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

In Context

3And she said, I have an handmaid Bilhah; enter thou [in] to her that she child on my knees, and that I have sons of her. (And she said, I have a slave-girl Bilhah; sleep thou with her, so that she can bear some children, and lay them on my knees, and so I shall have sons by her.)

5she conceived, and childed a son.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:3she took Hagar (the) Egyptian, her servantess, after ten years after that they began to inhabit the land of Canaan, and she gave Hagar (as) [a] wife to her husband. (she took her slave-girl, Hagar the Egyptian, and she gave her as a wife to her husband; this was ten years after that they had begun to live in the land of Canaan.)

Genesis 22:24Forsooth his concubine, or secondary wife, Reumah by name, childed Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 25:6soothly he gave gifts to the sons of [the] concubines, that is, (his) secondary wives; and Abraham, while he lived yet, separated them from Isaac, his son, to the east coast, (or but Abraham, while yet he lived, separated them from his son Isaac, and sent them away to the east parts).

Genesis 33:2And he put ever either handmaid, and the free children of them, in the beginning, (or And he put the slave-girls, and their children, at the front); soothly he put Leah, and her sons, in the second place; forsooth he put Rachel and Joseph (at) the last.

Genesis 46:25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter (or whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel). And Jacob begat these (through Bilhah); 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 →

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