Genesis 30:4

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So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

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  • Gen 16:3-4 : 3 After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, and gave her to Abram as a wife. 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When Hagar saw that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
  • Gen 21:10 : 10 And she said to Abraham, 'Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.'
  • Gen 22:24 : 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
  • Gen 25:1 : 1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
  • Gen 25:6 : 6 But to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still alive, he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the land of the east.
  • Gen 33:2 : 2 He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons:
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

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  • Gen 30:5
    89%

    5Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 30:1-3
    3 verses
    89%

    1When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children for Jacob, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I will die!'

    2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'

    3Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'

  • Gen 29:28-31
    4 verses
    86%

    28Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

    30Jacob was also with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

    31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

  • Gen 30:7
    82%

    7Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 30:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

    10And Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 29:21-24
    4 verses
    79%

    21Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my time is completed, and I want to be with her.'

    22So Laban gathered all the men of the place and held a feast.

    23But that evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob was with her.

    24Laban also gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

  • Gen 30:12
    76%

    12Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 35:22
    75%

    22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons:

  • Gen 35:25
    74%

    25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.

  • Gen 30:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15But Leah said to her, 'Isn’t it enough that you took my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?' Rachel said, 'Very well, he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.'

    16When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, 'You must come to me tonight, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.' So he slept with her that night.

    17God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

  • Gen 31:4
    73%

    4So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flock was.

  • Gen 29:10
    72%

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

  • Gen 30:19
    72%

    19Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

  • Gen 28:2
    72%

    2Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 31:33
    71%

    33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

  • Gen 29:12
    71%

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 34:1
    71%

    1Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to observe the women of the land.

  • Gen 30:23
    71%

    23She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace.'

  • Gen 46:25
    71%

    25These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel. She bore these to Jacob—seven in all.