Genesis 30:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

ASV

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

LSV

and she gives Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to her;

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

GNV

Then shee gaue him Bilhah her mayde to wife, and Iaakob went in to her.

JPS

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

LXXE

And she gave him Balla her maid, for a wife to him; and Jacob went in to her.

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WLC

וַתִּתֶּן־ל֛וֹ אֶת־בִּלְהָ֥ה שִׁפְחָתָ֖הּ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וַיָּבֹ֥א אֵלֶ֖יהָ יַעֲקֹֽב׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ Βαλλὰν τὴν παιδίσκην αὐτῆς, αὐτῷ γυναῖκα· καὶ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὴν Ἰακώβ.

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• 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 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 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 16:3–4So 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. And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was…
• Genesis 33:2He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
• 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!”
• 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.

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