Zilpah

Role: wife and mother · First appears: The Marriage Of Jacob

After receiving Zilpah, one of Laban’s daughters, along with Leah and Rachel, Jacob took her as a wife when Leah gave him her handmaid. Zilpah bore him a son, Gad, whom Leah named, and later a second son, Asher, also named by Leah.

Relationship record

Life events

• Leah gave Jacob her handmaid Zilpah as a wife.(The Birth Of Jacob's Children)
  • With: Leah Jacob
  • “Therefore she also gave him her handmaid to wife.”
• Zilpah bore Jacob a son, Gad.(The Birth Of Jacob's Children)
  • With: Jacob Gad
  • “Leah called the boy Gad, which means ‘fortune,’”
• Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, Asher.(The Birth Of Jacob's Children)
  • With: Jacob Asher
  • “To Zilpah's second son Leah gave the name of Asher, ‘praise,’”

The Marriage Of Jacob

• parent: Laban “With Leah and Rachel, Jacob received the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah, two other daughters of Laban, whom his concubines had borne unto him.”

The Birth Of Jacob's Children

• married with Jacob “Therefore she also gave him her handmaid to wife.”
• child: Gad “Zilpah was so young that her body betrayed no outward signs of pregnancy, and nothing was known of her condition until her son was born. Leah called the boy Gad”
• child: Asher “To Zilpah's second son Leah gave the name of Asher”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.