Genesis 30:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go into her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her."

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  • Gen 50:23 : 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation, the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
  • Job 3:12 : 12 Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse?
  • Ruth 4:11 : 11 And all the people at the gate and the elders said, 'We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
  • Gen 16:2-3 : 2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. I pray you, go in to my maid; it may be that I will obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
  • Gen 30:9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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  • Gen 30:4-10
    7 verses
    89%

    4She gave him Bilhah her maid as a wife, and Jacob went into her.

    5Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

    6Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan.

    7Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

    8Rachel said, "With great struggles have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

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

    10Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die."

    2Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

  • Gen 29:28-31
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    81%

    28And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week, and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also.

    29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid as her maid.

    30And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years.

    31And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 30:19-25
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    19Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

    20Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will dwell with me because I have born him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

    21Afterwards, she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.

    22God remembered Rachel, listened to her, and opened her womb.

    23She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

    24She named him Joseph and said, "The LORD shall add to me another son."

    25When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my own place and country."

  • Gen 30:15
    76%

    15She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? Would you also take away my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "Therefore, he shall lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

  • Gen 30:12
    75%

    12Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a second son.

  • Gen 35:25
    74%

    25And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid; Dan, and Naphtali:

  • Gen 30:17
    74%

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

  • Gen 29:23-24
    2 verses
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    23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her.

    24And Laban gave his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid as a handmaid.

  • Gen 35:22
    73%

    22And it came to pass, when Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

  • Gen 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was only a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel was in labor, and she had hard labor.

    17And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear; you shall have this son also.

  • Gen 31:14
    72%

    14And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 29:16
    72%

    16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 46:19
    72%

    19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 31:4
    72%

    4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 31:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

    34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

  • Gen 29:21
    71%

    21And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.

  • Gen 29:9
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    9And while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she tended them.

  • Gen 25:22
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    22And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so, why am I this way? So she went to inquire of the LORD.