Genesis 30:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

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."

Cross References

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.

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.