Genesis 30:5

5 she conceived, and childed a son.

Genesis 30:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:5

And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
] This was so far countenanced by the Lord, that he blessed her with conception, and Jacob with a son by her.

Genesis 30:5 In-Context

3 And she said, I have an handmaid Bilhah; enter thou [in] to her that she child on my knees, and that I have sons of her. (And she said, I have a slave-girl Bilhah; sleep thou with her, so that she can bear some children, and lay them on my knees, and so I shall have sons by her.)

4 And she gave to him Bilhah into matrimony; and when her husband had entered [in] to her,

5 she conceived, and childed a son.

6 And Rachel said, The Lord hath deemed to me (The Lord hath judged me), and hath heard my prayer, and gave a son to me; and therefore she called his name Dan.

7 And again Bilhah conceived, and childed another son,