Genesis 30:3

WEB

³She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

KJV

³And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

BSB

³Then 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.”

FBV

³“Here's my personal maid Bilhah,” Rachel replied. “Sleep with her and she can have children for me so I'll have a family too.”

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Extra References

Genesis 50:23

²³Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Job 3:12

¹²Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

Genesis 30:9

⁹When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

¹¹All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Genesis 16:2-3

²Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. ³Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.