³ So she said, “Here is ^(A)my maid Bilhah; go in to her, ^(B)and she will bear a child on my knees, ^(C)that I also may ^[a]have children by her.”

²³ Joseph saw Ephraim’s children ^(A)to the third generation. ^(B)The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, ^(C)were also brought up on Joseph’s knees.

¹¹ And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. ^(A)The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who ^(B)built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in ^(C)Ephrathah and be famous in ^(D)Bethlehem.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and ^(A)gave her to Jacob as wife.

^2 (A)So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord ^(B)has restrained me from bearing children. Please, ^(C)go in to my maid; perhaps I shall ^[a]obtain children by her.” And Abram ^(D)heeded the voice of Sarai. ³ Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram ^(E)had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.