Genesis 30:3

Modern English Version

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Have relations with her so that she may bear a child on my knees, so that I may also have children through her.”

Cross References

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 46:25

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. Also, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

Job 3:12

Why did her knees receive me? And why her breasts that I should nurse?

Ruth 4:11

Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you do well in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem!