<sod>The biblical account shows Bilhah's status as a ''handmaid'' change to an actual wife of Jacob [[BibleWiki:Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 4|Genesis 30:4]].  Her handmaid status is regarded by some [[biblical criticism|biblical scholars]] as indicating that the authors saw the tribe of Naphtali as being not of entirely Israelite origin;{{citation needed|date=March 2012}} this may have been the result of a typographic error, as the names of ''Naphtali'' and ''[[Issachar]]'' appear to have changed places elsewhere in the text,<ref>''Jewish Encyclopedia'': Tribe of Issachar</ref> and the birth narrative of Naphtali and Issachar is regarded by some [[textual criticism|textual critics]] as having been spliced together from [[documentary hypothesis|its sources]] in a manner which has highly corrupted the narrative.{{citation needed|date=March 2012}}<eod>
<sod>The biblical account shows Bilhah's status as a ''handmaid'' change to an actual wife of Jacob ({{bibleverse|Genesis|30:4}}).  Her handmaid status is regarded by some [[biblical criticism|biblical scholars]] as indicating that the authors saw the tribe of Naphtali as being not of entirely Israelite origin;{{citation needed|date=March 2012}} this may have been the result of a typographic error, as the names of ''Naphtali'' and ''[[Issachar]]'' appear to have changed places elsewhere in the text,<ref>''Jewish Encyclopedia'': Tribe of Issachar</ref> and the birth narrative of Naphtali and Issachar is regarded by some [[textual criticism|textual critics]] as having been spliced together from [[documentary hypothesis|its sources]] in a manner which has highly corrupted the narrative.{{citation needed|date=March 2012}}<eod>