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11 lis 2020 · Who Were Bilhah and Zilpah? By Leibel Gniwisch. Art by Rivka Korf Studio. The twelve tribes of Israel were conceived by four women. Two of them, Rachel and Leah, are lionized in history as the matriarchs of our people.
Genesis 35:22 expressly calls Bilhah Jacob's concubine, a pilegesh. When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob like a wife to bear him children as well. The apocryphal Testament of Naftali says that Bilhah and Zilpah's father was named Rotheus. [4]
Bilhah and Zilpah imbue every Jew with the capability to carry over the holiness we inherit from the Patriarchs and Matriarchs into creation. This is why Bilhah and Zilpah bore these children "on behalf of" and as "the agents of" Leah and Rachel.
27 kwi 2022 · Zilpah and Bilhah are instead each introduced as a shiphchah (meaning “maid-servant,” “slave-girl,” or “handmaid” 2) to Laban, the father of Leah and Rachel. Laban gives Zilpah to Leah and Bilhah to Rachel as a maid-slave as part of their wedding dowry (Gen 29:24, 29).
2 lip 2024 · The story of Bilhah and Zilpah, Rachel and Leah’s handmaidens, are more than footnotes in the Bible. The two women are God’s testimonies of sovereignty and the unexpected ways He fulfills His promises. In this article, let's explore how their lives contributed to God’s plan.
4 sty 2022 · Some Jewish scholars have suggested that Zilpah and Bilhah were Laban’s daughters by a concubine (and therefore half-sisters of Leah and Rachel), but this is nowhere stated in the Bible. Leah and Rachel were soon involved in a child-bearing war with each other.
Zilpah. In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah (Hebrew: זִלְפָּה Zīlpā, meaning uncertain) [1] was Leah 's handmaid [2] whom Leah gave to Jacob like a wife to bear him children (Genesis 30:9). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, whom Leah claimed as her own and named Gad and Asher (Genesis 30:10–13).
