Genesis 30:9

9 Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as 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 Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.

8 Rachel said, "I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won." So she named that son Naphtali.

9 Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

10 When Zilpah had a son,

11 Leah said, "I am lucky," so she named him Gad.