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Genesis 30:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

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‘This is what the Lord says,  “I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another  before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them in broad daylight.


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


He put the slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.


But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastwards, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.


Abraham had taken  another wife, whose name was Keturah,


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


So she said to Abraham, ‘Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac! ’


Sarai said to Abram, ‘Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.’ And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.


Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.


And Laban gave his slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her slave.


These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel.  She bore to Jacob: seven persons.





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