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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 30:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Zilpah, Leah’s maid, bore Jacob a son.] For it seems he consented to take her to wife at the motion of Leah, as he had took Bilhah at the instance of Rachel; and having gratified the one, he could not well deny the other; and went in to her, and she conceived, though neither of these things are mentioned, but are all necessarily supposed.
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