30:12 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son. 4
30:19 Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time. 5
1 tn Or “Bilhah conceived” (also in v. 7).
2 tn Heb “and she bore for Jacob a son.”
3 tn Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore for Jacob a son.”
5 tn Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore a second son for Jacob.”
7 tn Heb “and she bore a sixth son for Jacob,” i.e., this was the sixth son that Leah had given Jacob.
9 tn Or “conceived.”
10 tn Heb “my reproach.” A “reproach” is a cutting taunt or painful ridicule, but here it probably refers by metonymy to Rachel’s barren condition, which was considered shameful in this culture and was the reason why she was the object of taunting and ridicule.
11 tn Or “she conceived” (also in the following verse).
12 tc Some