The servant girl of the favored wife, the younger sister, was named Bilhah, while the servant girl of the first wife was named Zilpah. Tricky ended up with twelve sons by these four women.
Jewish women history
- Men frequently had multiple wives in biblical times. Sometimes the spouses belonged to separate social castes and kept their status even after getting married. The children of the higher caste woman were given preference and were regarded as the man's principal wife.
- Four sons—Naphtali, Dan, Asher, and Gad—fathered by Jacob and born to Bilhah and Zilpah—became the leaders of four of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
- Despite being slaves and not the wife of a patriarch, Bilhah and Zilpah's descendants eventually gave rise to the Jewish people.
- The half-sisters of Rachel and Leah are Bilhah and Zilpah. Leah and Rachel received Bilhah and Zilpah as handmaidens from Laban before their marriage.
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