Genesis 30:3 meaning and explanation
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
Genesis 30:3, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Rachel speaks these words to Jacob in a household locked in a painful rivalry with her sister Leah. Barren while Leah bears sons, Rachel borrows the custom of her time: a wife could give her servant to her husband, and the child counted as hers.
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