Genesis 30:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ Then Rachel said, “You can have my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her and she will have a child for me. [170] Then I can become a mother because of 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.”

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."

Genesis 30:3 Cross References

Genesis 30:9

Leah saw that she could have no more children. So she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob.

Genesis 46:25

Those were the sons of Jacob and Bilhah. (Bilhah was the maid that Laban had given to his daughter Rachel.) There were seven people in this family.

Genesis 50:23

During Joseph’s life, Ephraim had children and grandchildren. And his son Manasseh had a son named Makir. Joseph lived to see Makir’s children.

Job 3:12

Why did my mother hold me\par on her knees?\par Why did my mother’s breasts feed me?\par

Ruth 4:11

So all the people and elders [32] that were near the city gates were witnesses. They said,