Genesis 30:3

New Century Version

Then Rachel said, “Here is my slave girl Bilhah. Have sexual relations with her so she can give birth to a child for me. Then I can have my own family through her.”

Cross References

Genesis 30:9

Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 46:25

These are Jacob’s sons by Bilhah, the slave girl whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. There were seven persons in this part of Jacob’s family.

Genesis 50:23

During Joseph’s life Ephraim had children and grandchildren, and Joseph’s son Manasseh had a son named Makir. Joseph accepted Makir’s children as his own.

Job 3:12

Why did my mother’s knees receive me, and my mother’s breasts feed me?

Ruth 4:11

So all the people and elders who were at the city gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is coming into your home, like Rachel and Leah, who had many children and built up the people of Israel. May you become powerful in the district of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.