Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me[a](A) so that through her I too can build a family.” So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her. Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:3 Lit bear on my knees

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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