Holy Scripture
Genesis 30:4
A church father on this verse
“So, lest she nag him, asking him every day for children, Jacob, who was sent from his parents to take a daughter of Laban, agreed to take the foreign woman. But it was also so that the sons of the maidservants might become joint heirs with sons of the freewomen that Jacob took maidservants and freewomen. So he took Bi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4And she gave him Bilhah her maid, for a wife to him; and Jacob went in to her.
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In context
2And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived thee of the fruit of the womb?
3And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.
— Genesis 30:4 —
5And Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6And Rachel said, God has given judgment for me, and hearkened to my voice, and has given me a son; therefore she called his name, Dan.