Genesis 30:9

9 When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife.

Genesis 30:9 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had left bearing
For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done; she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife:
in this she was less excusable than Rachel, since she had four children of her own, and therefore might have been content without desiring others by her maid; nor had she long left off bearing, and therefore had no reason to give up hope of having any more.

Genesis 30:9 In-Context

7 Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.
8 Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister - and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).
9 When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife.
10 Zilpah had a son for Jacob.
11 Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky).
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