Genesis 30:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,”
A short, plain-language explanation of Genesis 30:4 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 30:4 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- Genesis 21:10and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
- Genesis 22:24Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
- Genesis 25:1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
- Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
- Genesis 29:29Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- Genesis 33:2He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 46:25These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
- 2 Samuel 12:11This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).