Genesis 30:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 16:3-4 : 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. 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
  • Gen 21:10 : 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
  • Gen 22:24 : 24 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 Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
  • Gen 33:2 : 2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 It 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.
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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  • Gen 30:5
    89%

    5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 30:1-3
    3 verses
    89%

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

    2 Jacob'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?"

    3 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."

  • Gen 29:28-31
    4 verses
    86%

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 30:7
    82%

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

  • Gen 30:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

  • Gen 29:21-24
    4 verses
    79%

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

    22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

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

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

  • Gen 30:12
    76%

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

  • Gen 35:22
    75%

    22 It 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 35:25
    74%

    25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

  • Gen 30:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15 She 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."

    16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.

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

  • Gen 31:4
    73%

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

  • Gen 29:10
    72%

    10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • Gen 30:19
    72%

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

  • Gen 28:2
    72%

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

  • Gen 31:33
    71%

    33 Laban 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.

  • Gen 29:12
    71%

    12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 34:1
    71%

    1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

  • Gen 30:23
    71%

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

  • Gen 46:25
    71%

    25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.