Genesis 30:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

“Here, take my servant Bilhah,” Rachel told him. “Have children by her, and I'll let them be born on my knees to show that they are mine.”

Cross References

Genesis 50:23

Joseph lived long enough to see Ephraim's children and grandchildren. He also lived to see the children of Manasseh's son Machir, and he welcomed them into his family.

Job 3:12

Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?

Ruth 4:11

The town leaders and the others standing there said: We are witnesses to this. And we pray that the Lord will give your wife many children, just as he did Leah and Rachel, the wives of Jacob. May you be a rich man in the tribe of Ephrath and an important man in Bethlehem.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah,