Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

Holman Bible

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

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

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Context Readings

Jacob's Children

3 And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.



Cross References

Genesis 16:3-4

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.

Genesis 21:10

And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son with Isaac.

Genesis 22:24

And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 25:1

And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

Genesis 25:6

And to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and, while he yet lived, sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward to the east country.

Genesis 33:2

and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

Genesis 35:22

And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

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