Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
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 And she saith, 'Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;' 4 and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her; 5 and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son,

Cross References

Genesis 16:3-4

And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,

Genesis 21:10

and she saith to Abraham, 'Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son -- with Isaac.'

Genesis 22:24

and his concubine, whose name is Reumah, she also hath borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 25:1

And Abraham addeth and taketh a wife, and her name is Keturah;

Genesis 25:6

and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham hath, Abraham hath given gifts, and sendeth them away from Isaac his son (in his being yet alive) eastward, unto the east country.

Genesis 33:2

and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Genesis 35:22

and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.

2 Samuel 12:11

thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun;

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