As her ancestress Sarah did with Hagar, Rachel brings her maidservant Bilhah and offers her to Jacob as a secondary wife in order that, as Rachel says, “I, even I, may get children from her. ”
فكما فعلت سارة قبلها مع هاجر ،‏ تعطي راحيل يعقوبَ خادمتها بلهة ليتخذها سرّية ،‏ وهكذا كما تقول راحيل :‏ « أُرزَق انا ايضا منها بنين » .‏