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BrLXXΚαὶ συνέλαβεν ἔτι Βαλλὰ ἡ παιδίσκη Ῥαχὴλ, καὶ ἔτεκεν υἱὸν δεύτερον τῷ Ἰακώβ. (Kai sunelaben eti Balla haʸ paidiskaʸ Ɽaⱪaʸl, kai eteken huion deuteron tōi Yakōb. )
BrTrAnd Balla, Rachel's maid, conceived yet again, and bore a second son to Jacob.
ULTThen Bilhah the maidservant of Rachel conceived again and bore a second son for Jacob.
USTThen Rachel’s servant Bilhah became pregnant again and had a second son for Jacob.
BSB § And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
OEBBilhah, Rachel’s slave-girl conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
WEBBEBilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
YLTAnd Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob,
DrbyAnd Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.
RVAnd Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
WbstrAnd Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
KJB-1769And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
KJB-1611And Bilhah Rachels mayd conceiued againe, and bare Iacob a second sonne. (And Bilhah Rachels mayd conceived again, and bare Yacob a second son.)
BshpsAnd Bilha Rachels seruant conceaued againe, & bare Iacob another sonne. (And Bilha Rachels servant conceived again, and bare Yacob another son.)
GnvaAnd Bilhah Rahels maide coceiued againe, and bare Iaakob the second sonne. (And Bilhah Rahels maid coceiued again, and bare Yacob the second son. )
CvdlBilha Rachels mayde coceaued agayne, and bare another sonne vnto Iacob. (Bilha Rachels maid coceaued again, and bare another son unto Yacob.)
WyclAnd eft Bala conseyuede, and childide anothir sone, (And after Bala conceivede, and childide another son,)
LuthAbermal ward Bilha, Rahels Magd, schwanger und gebar Jakob den andern Sohn. (Abermal what/which Bilha, Rahels Magd, schwanger and gebar Yakob the change son.)
30:1-8 Rachel’s naming of sons through Bilhah does not reflect faith as Leah’s namings had. Rachel felt wronged over the marriage and her barrenness. The names of Bilhah’s sons reflect Rachel’s bitter struggle with her sister and her feeling of some victory.
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
