And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my [a]knees, and [b]I shall have children also by her.

Then she gave him Bilhah her maid to wife, and Jacob went in to her.

So Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:3 I will receive her children on my lap, as though they were mine own.
  2. Genesis 30:3 Hebrew, I shall be built.

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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