She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
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- KJV And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
- BSB So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- NKJV Then she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
- NASB So she gave him her slave Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had relations with her.
- NLT So Rachel gave her servant, Bilhah, to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
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- Gen 35:22While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
- Gen 25:1Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
- 2 Sam 12:11“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
- Gen 21:10Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
- Gen 33:2He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Gen 16:3–4Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Gen 25:6but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
- Gen 22:24His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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