Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis 30:9 in other translations
| BSB | When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. |
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| WEB | When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. |
| ASV | When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. |
| YLT | And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife; |
| DARBY | And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife. |
| BBE | When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. |
| Webster | When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob for a wife. |
What does Genesis 30:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 30:3-9
3-9. Bilhah ... Zilpah--Following the example of Sarah with regard to Hagar, an example which is not seldom imitated still, she adopted the children of her maid. Leah took the same course. A bitter and intense rivalry existed between them, all the more from their close relationship as sisters; and although they occupied separate apartments, with their families, as is the uniform custom where a plurality of wives…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 30:1-13
Rachel envied her sister: envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more hateful to God, or more hurtful to our neighbours and ourselves. She considered not that God made the difference, and that in other things she had the advantage. Let us carefully watch against all the risings and workings of this passion in our minds. Let not our eye be evil towards any of our fellow-servants, because our…
Genesis 30:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 30:9
- Genesis 30:4
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
- Genesis 29:35
And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
- Genesis 30:17
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
- Genesis 16:3
And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
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Context
- Genesis 30:8
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
- Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
- Genesis 30:10
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y viendo Lea que había dejado de parir, tomó á Zilpa su sierva, y dióla á Jacob por mujer. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Léa vit qu’elle avait cessé d’enfanter, et elle prit Zilpa, sa servante, et la donna pour femme à Jacob. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und als Lea sah, daß sie aufhörte zu gebären, da nahm sie ihre Magd Silpa und gab sie Jakob zum Weibe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sentiens Lia quod parere desiisset, Zelpham ancillam suam marito tradidit. |