Verse 3

She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

Referenced Verses

• Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.
• Job 3:12 : 12 Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
• Ruth 4:11 : 11 All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied,“We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.
• Gen 16:2-3 : 2 So Sarai said to Abram,“Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him. 3 So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.
• Gen 30:9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.