When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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- KJV When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
- BSB When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- NKJV When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.
- NASB When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
- NLT Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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- Gen 30:4She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
- Gen 30:17God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
- Gen 16:3Sarai, 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 29:35She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
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