Verse List for GEN 30:3

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator,Rahel (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Rahel answered, “Listen, here’s my slave Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she’ll have children on my behalf and I’ll also be able to have a family through her.”

OET-LV And_she/it _said HERE maidservant _of_my Bilhāh go to_her/it so_that _she _may _bear _children on knees _of_my and_so _that _I _may _be _built _up also I from_her.

ULT Then she said, “Behold my slave woman Bilhah. Go to her so that she will bear, children on my knees, and I also will be built up from her.”

UST Then Rachel told him, “You can have my servant woman Bilhah as a wife. Have marital relations with her so that she will have children for me, so that I too can have a family.”

BSB & MSB Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children [for me],[fn] so that through her I too can build a family.”

OEB She said, ‘Here is my slave-girl Bilhah, go to her, so that she may bear sons who can be laid on my knees and I also may obtain children though her.’

WEBBE & WMBB She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

NET She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

LSV And she says, “Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she bears on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her”;

FBV “Here's my personal maid Bilhah,” Rachel replied. “Sleep with her and she can have children for me so I'll have a family too.”

T4T Then she said, “Look, here is my female slave, Bilhah. ◄Sleep with/Have sex with► [EUP] her, so that she may become pregnant and give birth to children for me. In that way it will be as though ◄I have children/her children are mine►.”

LEB Then she said, “Here is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children _⌊as my surrogate_⌋.[fn] Then I will even _⌊have children_⌋[fn] by her.”

BBE Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

Moff No Moff GEN book available

JPS And she said: 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.'

ASV And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.

DRA But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

YLT And she saith, 'Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;'

Drby And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.

RV And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.

SLT And she will say, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall bring forth upon my knees, and I also shall be built from her.

Wbstr And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

KJB-1769 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.[fn]

KJB-1611 And she said, Behold my mayde Bilhah: goe in vnto her, and she shall beare vpon my knees, that I may also [fn]have children by her.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps Then she sayde: Here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my knees, that I also may haue chyldren by her.
(Then she said: Here is my maid Bilha, go in unto her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I also may have children by her.)

Gnva And she said, Behold my maide Bilhah, goe in to her, and she shall beare vpon my knees, and I shall haue children also by her.
(And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I shall have children also by her.)

Cvdl Neuertheles she sayde: Beholde, there is Bilha my mayden, lye wt her, yt she maye beare vpon my lappe, & that I maye be increased by her.
(Nevertheless she said: Behold, there is Bilha my maiden, lie with her, it she may bear upon my lap, and that I may be increased by her.)

Wycl And sche seide, Y haue `a seruauntesse Bala, entre thou to hir that she childe on my knees, and that Y haue sones of hir.
(And she said, I have a servantsse Bala, enter thou/you to her that she child on my knees, and that I have sons of her.)

Luth Sie aber sprach: Siehe, da ist meine Magd Bilha; lege dich zu ihr, daß sie auf meinem Schoß gebäre, und ich doch durch sie erbauet werde.
(They/She but spoke: See/Look, there is my maid Bilha; lay you/yourself to/for you(pl)/their/her, that they/she/them on/in/to my lap(n) give_birth, and I though/but through they/she/them built become.)

ClVg At illa: Habeo, inquit, famulam Balam: ingredere ad illam, ut pariat super genua mea, et habeam ex illa filios.
(But that: Habeo, he_said, famulam Balam: ingredere to her, as pariat over knees my, and I_have from that children.)

UHB וַ⁠תֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה אֲמָתִ֥⁠י בִלְהָ֖ה בֹּ֣א אֵלֶ֑י⁠הָ וְ⁠תֵלֵד֙ עַל־בִּרְכַּ֔⁠י וְ⁠אִבָּנֶ֥ה גַם־אָנֹכִ֖י מִמֶּֽ⁠נָּה׃ ‡

BrLXX Εἶπε δὲ Ῥαχὴλ τῷ Ἰακὼβ, ἰδοὺ ἡ παιδίσκη μου Βαλλά· εἴσελθε πρὸς αὐτήν· καὶ τέξεται ἐπὶ τῶν γονάτων μου, καὶ τεκνοποιήσομαι κᾀγὼ ἐξ αὐτῆς.

BrTr And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Balla, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.