Genesis 30:3

New International Reader's Version

Then she said, “Here’s my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can have children for me. Then I too can have a family through her.”

Cross References

Genesis 30:9

Leah saw that she had stopped having children. So she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 46:25

These were the sons and grandsons born to Jacob and Bilhah. Laban had given Bilhah to his daughter Rachel. The total number of people in the family line of Jacob and Bilhah was seven.

Genesis 50:23

He lived long enough to see Ephraim’s children and grandchildren. When the children of Makir were born, they were placed on Joseph’s knees and counted as his own children. Makir was the son of Manasseh.

Job 3:12

Why was I placed on her knees? Why did her breasts give me milk?

Ruth 4:11

Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. The woman is coming into your home. May the Lord make her like Rachel and Leah. Together they built up the family of Israel. May you be an important person in Ephrathah. May you be famous in Bethlehem.