Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

New American Standard Bible

So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

King James Version

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

International Standard Version

So Rachel gave Jacob her woman servant Bilhah to be his wife, and Jacob had sex with her.

A Conservative Version

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went in to her.

American Standard Version

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Amplified

So she gave him Bilhah her maid as a [secondary] wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Bible in Basic English

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Darby Translation

And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Julia Smith Translation

And she will give to him Bilhah her maid for a wife, and Jacob will go in to her.

King James 2000

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid as his wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her

Modern King James verseion

And she gave him her slave woman Bilhah to wife. And Jacob went in to her.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her:

NET Bible

So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

New Heart English Bible

She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

The Emphasized Bible

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid, to wife, - and Jacob went in unto her;

Webster

And she gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, for a wife: and Jacob went in to her.

World English Bible

She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Youngs Literal Translation

and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And she gave
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

בּלהה 
Bilhah 
Usage: 11

to wife
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

and Jacob
יעקב 
Ya`aqob 
Usage: 349

went in

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

References

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Context Readings

Jacob's Children

3 Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me so that through her I too can build a family.” 4 So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her. 5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.



Cross References

Genesis 16:3-4

So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.

Genesis 21:10

So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!”

Genesis 22:24

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 25:1

Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,

Genesis 25:6

And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

Genesis 33:2

He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had 12 sons:

2 Samuel 12:11

“This is what the Lord says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them publicly.

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