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She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
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Verse 3. Servant, like a maid of honour. Josephus says she was not a slave, no more than Zelpha.—My knees, whom I may nurse with pleasure. It was an ancient custom to place the new-born infants upon the knees of some near relation, who gave them a name, and thus in a manner adopted them. Calmet. 50:22. Job 3:12. Psalms 21:11. Homer. Calmet.
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