Genesis 30:4
Good News Translation
So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.

New Revised Standard Version
So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.

Contemporary English Version
Then Rachel let Jacob marry Bilhah,

New American Bible
So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah as wife, and Jacob had intercourse with her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

to wife.

Genesis 16:3 She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

Genesis 21:10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.

Genesis 22:24 And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.

Genesis 25:1,6 And Abraham married another wife named Cetura: . . .

Genesis 33:2 And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

Genesis 35:22 And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

2 Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Context
Dan and Naphtali
3But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her. 4And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,5When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.…
Cross References
Genesis 16:2
She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

Genesis 16:3
She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

Genesis 16:4
And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.

Genesis 30:5
When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.

Genesis 30:3
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