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Zilpah

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Leah' s handmaiden

  • Genesis 29:24 And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

Mother of Gad and Asher by Jacob

  • Genesis 30:9–13 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad. When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call m…
  • Genesis 35:26 And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
  • Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
  • Genesis 46:18 These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah — whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah — sixteen in all.

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.