Genesis 30:9

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

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Genesis 16:3

So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.

Genesis 29:24

(Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.)

Genesis 29:35

She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord”; therefore she named him Judah; then she ceased bearing.

Genesis 30:10

Then Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:17

And God heeded Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

Genesis 30:4

So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 30:8

Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed”; so she named him Naphtali.

Genesis 46:18

(these are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons).