3Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."
3Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."
1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"
2 Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
3 Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."
4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
5 and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
30:3And 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.
30:3But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
30:3And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.
30:3And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.
30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.
30:3And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
30:3She said, |Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.|
30:3And she saith, 'Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;'
30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear on my knees, that I may also have children by her.