Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. New Living Translation Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. English Standard Version When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Berean Standard Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. King James Bible When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. New King James Version When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife. New American Standard Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. NASB 1995 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. NASB 1977 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Legacy Standard Bible Then Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, so she took her servant-woman Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Amplified Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing [children], she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a [secondary] wife. Christian Standard Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Holman Christian Standard Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. American Standard Version When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And Leah saw that she ceased from child bearing and she brought Zelpha her Handmaid and she gave her as a wife to Yaquuv. Brenton Septuagint Translation And Lea saw that she ceased from bearing, and she took Zelpha her maid, and gave her to Jacob for a wife; and he went in to her. Contemporary English Version When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah, Douay-Rheims Bible Lia, perceiving that she had left off bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to her husband. English Revised Version When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. GOD'S WORD® Translation When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as his wife. Good News Translation When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife. International Standard Version When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, she took her woman servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. JPS Tanakh 1917 When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. Literal Standard Version And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife; Majority Standard Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. New American Bible When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as wife. NET Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. New Revised Standard Version When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. New Heart English Bible When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Webster's Bible Translation When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob for a wife. World English Bible When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Young's Literal Translation And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Gad and Asher9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. 10And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.… Cross References Genesis 30:8 Then Rachel said, "In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won." So she named him Naphtali. Genesis 30:10 And Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Treasury of Scripture When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. A. Genesis 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. Genesis 29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. gave her. Genesis 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. Genesis 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. Jump to Previous Bearing Ceased Children Clear Finished Handmaid Jacob Leah Maid Maidservant Maid-Servant Stopped Time Wife ZilpahJump to Next Bearing Ceased Children Clear Finished Handmaid Jacob Leah Maid Maidservant Maid-Servant Stopped Time Wife ZilpahGenesis 30 1. Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob.5. Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali. 9. Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher. 14. Reuben finds mandrakes, 15. with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel. 17. Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. 22. Rachel bears Joseph. 25. Jacob desires to depart. 27. Laban detains him on a new agreement. 37. Jacob's policy, whereby he becomes rich. (9-13) Leah . . . took Zilpah . . . --By ceasing to bear, Leah had lost her one hold upon her husband's affection, and to regain it she follows Rachel's example. The struggle of these two women for the husband gives us a strange picture of manners and morals, but must not be judged by our standard. Leah herself regards the bestowal of her handmaid upon Jacob as a deserving act of self-sacrifice (Genesis 30:18). The names, moreover, which she gives to Zilpah's children show that the happier frame of mind to which she had attained when she called her fourth son "Judah," praise, remained unbroken. On the birth of the first, she says, "With good luck!" and calls his name "Gad," that is, luck. The Jews read, in their synagogue, Luck cometh, whence the rendering of the Authorised Version, "A troop cometh;" but there is no justification for the change. With regard to the meaning of the word "Gad," all the Versions render it prosperity, good fortune. Nor is the Samaritan, as has been alleged, an exception; for though the worthless Latin translation of it has "a troop cometh," the Samaritan itself has with good luck. In Isaiah 65:11 we find Gad used as the name of an idol. Zilpah's other son is called Asher, that is, happy, in Latin Felix, and Leah says, "With my happiness," using just the same turn of speech as before. The first child came bringing her good luck; the second brought her happiness.Verse 9. - When Leah saw that she had left bearing (literally, stood from bearing, as in Genesis 29:35), she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her to Jacob to wife - being in this led astray by Rachel's sinful example, both as to the spirit of unholy rivalry she cherished, and the questionable means she employed for its gratification. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew When Leahלֵאָ֔ה (lê·’āh) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3812: Leah -- 'weary', a wife of Jacob saw וַתֵּ֣רֶא (wat·tê·re) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 7200: To see that כִּ֥י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction she had stopped עָמְדָ֖ה (‘ā·mə·ḏāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations having children, מִלֶּ֑דֶת (mil·le·ḏeṯ) Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage she gave וַתִּתֵּ֥ן (wat·tit·tên) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set her servant שִׁפְחָתָ֔הּ (šip̄·ḥā·ṯāh) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 8198: Maid, maidservant Zilpah זִלְפָּ֣ה (zil·pāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 2153: Zilpah -- one of Jacob's wives to Jacob לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב (lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc as a wife. לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ (lə·’iš·šāh) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female Links Genesis 30:9 NIVGenesis 30:9 NLT Genesis 30:9 ESV Genesis 30:9 NASB Genesis 30:9 KJV Genesis 30:9 BibleApps.com Genesis 30:9 Biblia Paralela Genesis 30:9 Chinese Bible Genesis 30:9 French Bible Genesis 30:9 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 30:9 When Leah saw that she had finished (Gen. 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