Genesis 30:9

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“When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.”

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BSBPD

“When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 30:9 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
  2. Genesis 29:24And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
  3. Genesis 29:35And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
  4. Genesis 30:4So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
  5. Genesis 30:17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
  6. Genesis 46:18These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

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