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Then she said, “Here is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children as my surrogate.[a] Then I will even have children[b] by her.” Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her And Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:3 Literally “upon my knees”
  2. Genesis 30:3 Literally “be built up”

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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