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Genesis 29:29 describes her as Laban's handmaiden (שִׁפְחָה), who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob like a wife to bear him children. [2] Bilhah gave birth to two sons, whom Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan and Naphtali. [3]
According to the Book of Genesis, Naphtali (/ ˈ n æ f t ə l aɪ /; Hebrew: נַפְתָּלִי, Modern: Naftalī, Tiberian: Nap̄tālī, "my struggle") was the sixth son of Jacob, the second of his two sons with Bilhah. He was the founder of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali.
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, Dān, "judgment" or "he judged") [2] was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah [3] (Jacob's fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel's handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob's concubines (Book of Genesis, Genesis 35:22). In the Biblical account, he is the founder of the Israelite ...
From what is known of Jacob, he had two wives, sisters Leah and Rachel, and two concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah. The twelve sons form the basis for the twelve tribes of Israel, listed in the order from oldest to youngest: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Rachel told Jacob to sleep with her maid Bilhah, so that Bilhah might bear children upon Rachel's knees who might be credited to Rachel, and he did. [37] Bilhah bore Jacob a son, and Rachel called him Dan, saying that God had judged her and also heard her voice. [38] And Bilhah bore Jacob a second son, and Rachel called him Naphtali, saying ...
The ladder of Jacob : ancient interpretations of the biblical story of Jacob and his children. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12122-2. OCLC 698590791. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia.
Former President Barack Obama's family was the subject of a recent article stating a man had filed a lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
After Bilhah bore two sons, Leah took up the same idea and presented Zilpah to Jacob so she could have more children through her handmaid. Leah named the two sons of Zilpah and was directly involved in their upbringing. According to Rashi, an 11th-century commentator, Zilpah was younger than Bilhah, and Laban's decision to give her to Leah was ...