Genesis 30:3

World English Bible (2000)

She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.
  • Job 3:12 : 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
  • Ruth 4:11 : 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
  • Gen 16:2-3 : 2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
  • Gen 30:9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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  • Gen 30:4-10
    7 verses
    89%

    4She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

    5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

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

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

  • Gen 29:28-31
    4 verses
    81%

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

    29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

    30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

    31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 30:19-25
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    78%

    19Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

    20Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

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

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

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

    24She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

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

  • Gen 30:15
    76%

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

  • Gen 30:12
    75%

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

  • Gen 35:25
    74%

    25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): 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
    74%

    23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

    24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

  • Gen 35:22
    73%

    22It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

  • Gen 35:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

    17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

  • Gen 31:14
    72%

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

  • Gen 29:16
    72%

    16Laban 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%

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

  • Gen 31:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

    34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

  • Gen 29:21
    71%

    21Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

  • Gen 29:9
    71%

    9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

  • Gen 25:22
    71%

    22The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.