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Then Rachel said, “You can have my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, and she will have a child for me.[a] Then I can be a mother through her.”

So Rachel gave Bilhah to her husband Jacob. He had sexual relations with Bilhah. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Jacob.

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  1. Genesis 30:3 she will have a child for me Literally, “she will give birth on my knees, and I, too, will have a son through her.”

Then she said, “Here is Bilhah,(A) my servant.(B) Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”(C)

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife.(D) Jacob slept with her,(E) and she became pregnant and bore him a son.

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