Génesis 30:4

4 Entonces Raquel le dio a Jacob por mujer su criada Bilhá, y Jacob se acostó con ella.

Génesis 30:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:4

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid
To be enjoyed as a wife, though she was no other than a concubine; yet such were sometimes called wives, and were secondary ones, and were under the proper lawful wife, nor did their children inherit; but those which Jacob had by his wives' maids did inherit with the rest: and Jacob went in unto her;
consenting to what Rachel his wife proposed to him: having concubines, as well as more wives than one, were not thought criminal in those times, and were suffered of God, and in this case for the multiplication of Jacob's seed; and perhaps he might the more readily comply with the motion of his wife, from the example of his grandfather Abraham, who took Hagar to wife at the instance of Sarah.

Génesis 30:4 In-Context

2 Pero Jacob se enojó muchísimo con ella y le dijo:—¿Acaso crees que soy Dios? ¡Es él quien te ha hecho estéril!

3 —Aquí tienes a mi criada Bilhá —propuso Raquel—. Acuéstate con ella. Así ella dará a luz sobre mis rodillas, y por medio de ella también yo podré formar una familia.

4 Entonces Raquel le dio a Jacob por mujer su criada Bilhá, y Jacob se acostó con ella.

5 Bilhá quedó embarazada y le dio un hijo a Jacob.

6 Y Raquel exclamó: «¡Dios me ha hecho justicia! ¡Escuchó mi plegaria y me ha dado un hijo!» Por eso Raquel le puso por nombre Dan.