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	Bilhah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bilhah is given to Rachel as a handmaid by Rachel's father, Laban, upon Rachel's marriage to Jacob.
		According to some commentators, Bilhah and Zilpah, the handmaids of Rachel and Leah, respectively, were actually younger daughters of Laban.
		Bilhah is said to be buried in the Tomb of the Matriarchs in Tiberias.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bilhah (310 words)

	Bible Dictionary: Bilhah
		Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
		Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
		Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
	scriptures.lds.org /bdb/bilhah?sr=1 (238 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BILHAH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When Rachel died she was replaced by Bilhah in Jacob's affections, and he took up his residence in her tent.
		They told her she had been deputed to relate to Joseph all the words of the parting blessing conferred by Jacob upon his favorite son; which untruth was regarded by them as permissible for the sake of peace (Tan., ed.
		Consequently Bilhah (like Hagar, Keturah, and others) is to be regarded as the name of a tribe; even though there are no further indications of the fact, and the meaning of the name has not been determined.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1066&letter=B&search=Bilhah (721 words)

	Books By Orson Scott Card - Rachel and Leah
		Bilhah tried to dodge out of the way, but she bumped into the wall of a house and the donkey bumped her from the other side and she couldn't find a way past the donkey's legs because it was stamping and snorting.
		To each of them Bilhah bowed the way her father had always bowed to the men he worked for, and because they laughed a little she knew she was not supposed to do that; but the laughter was kind, she knew that it was not seen as a fault in her, and so she persisted.
		Bilhah had made the mistake of calling her "the blind girl" to one of the older servant women, and to Bilhah's shock, the woman slapped her, and not lightly, either.
	www.hatrack.com /osc/books/rachelandleah01.shtml (6245 words)

	The Bible And Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid (slave) and Jacob's concubine.
		Bilhah bore Dan and Naphtall, both claimed as her own by Rachel.
		Rachel's claim was so secure that Naphtall, Bilhah's natural son cohabited with his own mother and fathered four children by her.
	www.kurtsaxon.com /atheist004.htm (766 words)

	Bible Study - Bilhah
		Bilhah was a servant of Laban who he gave to his daughter Rachel to be her servant when Rachel married Jacob (see Jacob and Laban).
		Later, when Rachel found herself not having children (while her sister Leah, Jacob's other wife, was), Rachel arranged to have children through Bilhah (see Children of Jacob), thereby making Bilhah an ancestor of two of The Tribes Of Israel, Dan and Naphtali (Rachel later did have children of her own, Joseph and Benjamin).
		Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20021006.htm (513 words)

	Holy Spirit Interactive: Bible Discovery - The Twelve Sons of Jacob/The Twelve Tribes of Israel
		All the twelve sons of Jacob - born to wives Leah and Rachel, and their handmaidens Zilpah and Bilhah - were blessed in that they were to be a part of the nation of Israel.
		Rachel, desperate for a child, gave her handmaiden Bilhah to Jacob to lie with.
		Bilhah gave birth to Dan, and then to Naphtali.
	www.holyspiritinteractive.net /biblediscovery/the12tribesofisrael.asp (314 words)

	The Advent of Dionysus / Gerarai / The Fourteen / 4.05
		And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
		Therefore Israel's fifth and sixth sons were born by proxy of Rachel's maid, Bilhah, and Bilhah becomes his second wife (2).
		Hence it is Israel (12), by proxy of Zilpah (3), ascends to the level of the woman's father (3), whereas Rachel (43), by proxy of Bilhah (2), descends to the level of the man's mother (2), to which the numbers 32 and 23 apply—i.e., Israel towards Rachel (32) and Rachel towards Israel (23).
	www.dionysus.org /x0405.html (2187 words)

	Genesis Chapter 30 - American Standard Version - Speaking Bible - Talking Bible Software by johnhurt.com
		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.
		And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
		And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
	www.speakingbible.com /asv/B01C030.htm (1006 words)

	The Cell of Self-Knowledge - THE PROLOGUE
		By Bilhah is understanden imagination, the which is servant unto reason, as Bilhah was to Rachel; by Zilpah is understanden sensuality, the which is servant unto affection, as Zilpah was to Leah.
		And also the sensuality is evermore so thirsty, that all that affection her lady may feel,[28] may not yet slake her thirst.
		The sons of Jacob and Bilhah, servant to Rachel, are these: Dan, sight of pain to come; and Naphtali, sight of joy to come.
	www.ccel.org /g/gardner/cell/cell04.htm (821 words)

	Genesis 30:3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her
		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.
		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.
		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.
	bible.cc /genesis/30-3.htm (312 words)

	Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Bilhah was a maidservant; and therefore did not bear for herself but for her mistress, who, claiming the child as her own, thus procured the honor of a mother.
		Moreover, he does not always make the punishment equal to the offenses of his people, nor does he always rouse them, alike quickly, from their torpor, but waits for the matured season of correction.
		Therefore it was his will that they who were born from this faulty connection, should yet be reckoned among the legitimate children; just as Moses shortly before called Bilhah a wife, who yet might more properly have been called a harlot.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/calvin/calcom02.viii.i.html (7317 words)

	Wisdom of the Tzaddik
		We note that a distinction is drawn between "his brothers" in the first section of the verse and the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah in the second section.
		It is interesting that while the Torah stated that Yosef fraternized with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, Rashi stresses Yosef's behavior with the son's of Bilhah; perhaps due to Reuven's earlier slight they were most vulnerable to this type of insult.
		To protect the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah from the vicious behavior of the sons of Leah, he decides to bring the focus on himself instead.
	www.aish.com /torahportion/moray/Wisdom_of_the_Tzaddik.asp (2969 words)

	Genesis, Chapter 30 (King James Bible) - Christian Answers® WebBible™
		3 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.
		4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
		5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
	www.christiananswers.net /bible/gen30.html (1079 words)

	Book of Jubilees: The Book of Jubilees: Reuben's Sin with Bilhah. Laws regarding Incest. Jacob's Children (xxxiii. 1-23)
		And he hid himself at night, and he entered the house of Bilhah [at night], and he found her sleeping alone on a bed in her house.
		And he lay with her, and she awoke and saw, and behold Reuben was lying with her in the bed, and she uncovered the border of her covering and seized him, and cried out, and discovered that it was Reuben.
		And Jacob was exceedingly wroth with Reuben because he had lain with Bilhah, because he had uncovered his father's skirt.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bib/jub/jub67.htm (762 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the midst of this action-packed portion, it is easy to overlook one key verse, even though the events described in that verse will have serious repercussions throughout the rest of Genesis and beyond.
		Reuben "defiled" Bilhah to prevent her from providing Jacob with more sons, who would further subdivide Reuben's inheritance.
		Reuben resented this humiliating slight to his mother, Leah, saying "If my mother's sister [Rachel] was a rival to my mother, shall her sister's maid be a rival [as well]?" He then moved his father's bed in an attempt to rectify the situation.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/57/story_5771_1.html (432 words)

	Forgotten Books of Eden: The Testament of Naphtali: Chapter I
		Naphtali, the eighth son of Jacob and Bilhah.
		6 I was born from Bilhah, and because Rachel dealt craftly, and gave Bilhah in place of herself to Jacob, and she conceived and bare me upon Rachel's knees, therefore she called my name Naphtali.
		12 And next she bore Bilhah, saying: My daughter hastens after what is new, for immediately that she was born she seized the breast and hastened to suck it.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bib/fbe/fbe287.htm (997 words)

	Blue Letter Bible - Commentaries
		Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her: Much like Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham in a surrogate-mother type arrangement (Genesis 16), Rachel gives her maid Bilhah to Jacob.
		The symbolism clearly showed the child was legally the child of the mother, not the surrogate, who merely “stood in” for the wife both in conception and birth.
		She called his name Dan: Jacob’s fifth son, born to him through Bilhah, the maid of Rachel, is named by Rachel Dan meaning, “judgment.” Because of her own envy, she viewed this child born of the flesh as a victory and a vindication for her.
	www.blueletterbible.org /Comm/david_guzik/sg/Gen_30.html (2639 words)

	Parshat Vayeitzei 5764 - OU Torah Insights Project
		And Lavan gave Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaiden to her as a handmaiden (L’SHIFCHAH) (28-29).
		As Radak explains simply, each of Lavan’s daughters is receiving a wedding present of one of his handmaidens for her personal use.
		On the other hand, when Lavan later gives Bilhah to Rachel, there is no longer a need for him to dissemble.
	www.ou.org /torah/ti/5764/vayeitzei64.htm (1455 words)

	Radu's Analysis of the Ten Commandments
		7 Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah conceived again and bore a second son, 8 and Rachel said, “I engaged in a fateful struggle with my sister, and I prevailed.” So she named him Naphtali.
		That just seems to be punishing the women though; perhaps Bilhah would be well within her rights to find a righteous, well built man to do God’s will and rape Jacob.
		Assuming Bilhah consented to the arrangement, perhaps it wasn’t adultery because their intentions were to produce a child; this goes back to the beginning of it all and could be considered complying with Genesis 1:28: God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.
	www.olywa.net /radu/the_ten.html (1544 words)

	Genesis 30
		Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her."
		So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.
		Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
	www.hope.edu /academic/religion/bandstra/BIBLE/GEN/GEN30.HTM (1002 words)

	1 Chronicles 4:29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad
		and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, (ASV)
		And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, (BBE)
		And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, (KJV)
	bible.cc /1_chronicles/4-29.htm (153 words)

	Seek The Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The problem of putting Bilhah and Zilpah in the honorary list is that we do not know a single thing about their behavior!
		I do not think the list of Matriarchs would be any more honorable or truthful by the inclusion of Bilhah and Zilpah.
		Bilhah and Zilpah would be quite out of place in the list.
	diaspora.org.il /seek/seek5.htm (324 words)

	Bilhah — Infoplease.com
		Balah - Balah, the same as Bilhah 2.
		Naphtali - Naphtali, in the Bible, son of Jacob and Bilhah and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of...
		In the Bible, son of Jacob and Bilhah and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0807564.html (192 words)

	Genesis 30
		A profession that has no other basis than cold orthodoxy (as represented by Leah) can’t produce Christlikeness in a believer’s life; but Bilhah, the representative of mere outward ceremonialism is equally powerless to produce true spiritual fruit.
		In her despair Rachel may have thought that there was no other way for her to be multiplied than through Bilhah.
		Since Bilhah represents legal ceremonialism, Jacob’s union with her represents a believer’s becoming more punctilious in his observance of outward religious forms.
	www.script7.org /genesis_30.htm (7670 words)

	Cross Reference Bible - Book of Genesis, chapter 30
		30:4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
		30:5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
		30:7 Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
	members.aol.com /Sftrail/crossreferencebible/genesis/30.html (994 words)

	Kolel's Parasha Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He has returned to his home in Canaan, reconciled with his brother Esau, endured the rape of his daughter Dina, followed by the slaughter of her violators by his sons, and then, finally, his beloved wife Rachel dies in child-birth, leaving Jacob with a motherless infant.
		The traditional explanation is that after Rachel’s death, Jacob moved in with Bilhah, the maidservant whom his beloved Rachel gave to him to bear children.
		In Jacob’s defence, it is said that he moved in with Bilhah to honour Rachel’s memory, for Bilhah was part of Rachel’s household and her loyal servant.
	www.kolel.org /pages/5764/vayishlach.html (1481 words)

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