Genesis 30:3 - Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But she said: "I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And she said, See here, take my maid Bilhah and have intercourse with her; and [when the baby comes] she shall deliver it upon my knees, that I by her may also have children.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.

Common English Bible

³ She said, “Here’s my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her, and she will give birth for me. Because of her, I will also have children.”

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ But she said: I have here my servant Bala. Go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

Genesis 30:3 Cross References

Genesis 50:23

After these things happened, he said to his brothers: "God will visit you after my death, and he will make you ascend from this land into the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Job 3:12

Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

Ruth 4:11

All the people who were at the gate, along with the eldest, answered, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who enters into your house, like Rachel, and Leah, who built up the house of Israel, so that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrathah, and so that her name may be honored in Bethlehem.

Genesis 30:9

Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.

Genesis 46:25

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