Genesis 30:4 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 30:4

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

KJV

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ASV

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

WEB

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

YLT

and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;

DBT

And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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11 verses on the floor

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis 35:22
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis 22:24
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Genesis 25:6
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Genesis 25:1
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

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Zilpah--Following the example of Sarah with regard to Hagar, an example which is not seldom imitated still, she adopted the children of her maid. Leah took the same course.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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