Genesis 30:9
Good News Translation
When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.

New Revised Standard Version
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Contemporary English Version
When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah,

New American Bible
When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.

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Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.

A.

2256. B.C.

1748. left.

Genesis 30:17 And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son:

Genesis 29:35 The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.

gave her.

Genesis 30:4 And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

Genesis 16:3 She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

Context
Gad and Asher
9Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.10And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,…
Cross References
Genesis 30:8
For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.

Genesis 30:10
And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,

Genesis 30:8
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