And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman that is