Genesis 30:9
(Then) Leah feeled that she ceased to bear child, and she gave Zilpah, her handmaid (or her slave-girl), to her husband.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
In Context
10And when Zilpah, after conceiving, childed a son,
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 29:35The fourth time she conceived, and childed a son, and said, Now I shall acknowledge to the Lord; and therefore she called his name Judah; and ceased to child. (And the fourth time she conceived, and bare a son, she said, Now I shall praise the Lord; and so she called his name Judah; and ceased to bear any more children.)
Genesis 30:17and God heard her prayers, and she conceived, and childed the fifth son;
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 →