Genesis 30:9

New Living Translation

Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Cross References

Genesis 16:3

So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)

Genesis 29:24

(Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.)

Genesis 29:35

Once again Leah became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She named him Judah, for she said, “Now I will praise the Lord!” And then she stopped having children.

Genesis 30:10

Soon Zilpah presented him with a son.

Genesis 30:17

And God answered Leah’s prayers. She became pregnant again and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

Genesis 30:4

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

Genesis 30:8

Rachel named him Naphtali, for she said, “I have struggled hard with my sister, and I’m winning!”

Genesis 46:18

These were the sons of Zilpah, the servant given to Leah by her father, Laban. The number of Jacob’s descendants through Zilpah was sixteen.