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. ”
Tāpat kā viņas priekštece Sāra bija darījusi ar Hagaru, Rāhele piedāvāja Jēkabam par blakussievu savu kalponi Bilhu, sakot: ” Lai man rastos caur viņu dzimums. ”