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Genesis 30:9

In 11 translations

BSB
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
KJV
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
WEB
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
ASV
When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.
LSV
And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife;
YLT
And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife;
DBY
And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.
DRC
Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband.
GNV
And when Leah saw that she had left bearing, shee tooke Zilpah her mayde, and gaue her Iaakob to wife.
JPS
When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.
LXXE
And Lea saw that she ceased from bearing, and she took Zelpha her maid, and gave her to Jacob for a wife; and he went in to her.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַתֵּ֣רֶא לֵאָ֔ה כִּ֥י עָמְדָ֖ה מִלֶּ֑דֶת וַתִּקַּח֙ אֶת־זִלְפָּ֣ה שִׁפְחָתָ֔הּ וַתִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֛הּ לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב לְאִשָּֽׁה׃
LXX-Br
Εἶδε δὲ Λεία ὅτι ἔστη τοῦ τίκτειν· καὶ ἔλαβε Ζελφὰν τὴν παιδίσκην αὐτῆς, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν τῷ Ἰακὼβ γυναῖκα· καὶ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτήν.

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  • Genesis 30:4So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
  • 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 29:35And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
  • Genesis 30:17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.

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