Bilhah

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In the Book of Genesis, Bilhah (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ "Faltering; bashful", Standard Hebrew Bilha, Tiberian Hebrew Bilh¿h) is Rachel's handmaid who becomes a wife of Jacob and bears him two sons, Dan and Naphtali.The Testament of Naftali, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, says that Bilhah and Zilpah's father was named Ahiyot ( lit. "sisters" ). He was taken into captivity and freed by Laban, Rachel and Leah's father, and he gave Ahiyot a wife named Hannah, who was their mother. Talmudic sources (Midrash Raba, Genesis 74:13 and elsewhere), on the other hand, state that Bilhah and Zilpah were also Laban's daughters, through his concubines, making them half-sisters to Rachel and Leah.

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