Gênesis 30:3

3 Então ela respondeu: “Aqui está Bila, minha serva. Deite-se com ela, para que tenha filhos em meu lugar^[a] e por meio dela eu também possa formar família”.

Gênesis 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:3

And she said
in order to pacify Jacob, and explain her meaning to him; which was, not that she thought it was in his power to make her the mother of children, but that he would think of some way or another of obtaining children for her, that might go for hers; so the Arabic version, "obtain a son for me": but, since no method occurred to him, she proposes one: behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her,
take her and use her as thy wife: and she shall bear upon my knees;
either sit on her knees in the time of labour, and so bring forth as if it was she herself; or rather bear a child, which Rachel would take and nurse, and dandle upon her knees as her own, see ( Isaiah 66:12 ) ; that I may also have children by her;
children as well as her sister, though by her maid, and as Sarah proposed to have by Hagar, whose example, in all probability, she had before her, and uses her very words; (See Gill on Genesis 16:2).

Gênesis 30:3 In-Context

1 Quando Raquel viu que não dava filhos a Jacó, teve inveja de sua irmã. Por isso disse a Jacó: “Dê-me filhos ou morrerei!”

2 Jacó ficou irritado e disse: “Por acaso estou no lugar de Deus, que a impediu de ter filhos?”

3 Então ela respondeu: “Aqui está Bila, minha serva. Deite-se com ela, para que tenha filhos em meu lugar e por meio dela eu também possa formar família”.

4 Por isso ela deu a Jacó sua serva Bila por mulher. Ele deitou-se com ela,

5 Bila engravidou e deu-lhe um filho.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebraico: "nos meus joelhos."