Genesis 30:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ Then she gave her maid-servant Bilhah to him for a wife, and Jacob went to her.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her maid as a [secondary] wife, and Jacob had intercourse with her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Common English Bible

⁴ So Rachel gave her servant Bilhah to Jacob as his wife, and he slept with her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.

Genesis 30:4 Cross References

Genesis 16:2

So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, Adonai has prevented me from having children. Go, please, to my slave-girl. Perhaps I’ll get a son by her.” Abram listened to Sarai’s voice.

Genesis 21:10

So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this female slave and her son, for the son of this female slave will not be an heir with my son—with Isaac.”

Genesis 22:24

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.

Genesis 25:1

Now Abraham took another wife—her name was Keturah.

Genesis 25:6

but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham had given gifts and sent them away from his son Isaac while he was still living, eastward to the land of the east.

Genesis 29:29

Laban also gave his daughter Rachel his female servant Bilhah, to be a servant for her.

Genesis 30:5

Bilhah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Jacob.

Genesis 33:2

He put the female servants and their children first, then Leah and her children behind them, then Rachel and Joseph behind them.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 46:25

These are the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter and she bore these to Jacob. The tally of all the people was seven.

2 Samuel 12:11

“Thus says Adonai: Behold, I am going to raise up evil against you from your own household, 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.