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Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Have relations with her so that she may bear a child on my knees,[a] so that I may also have children through her.”

So she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as a wife, and Jacob had relations with her. Bilhah conceived and gave Jacob a son.

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  1. Genesis 30:3 Meaning “on my behalf.”

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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