“And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.”
Then she said: here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and through her I too can build a family. The proposal mirrors Sarai's proposal in Genesis 16:2 — the wife providing a surrogate to produce heirs when the wife herself is barren. The same plan, the same motive, the same pattern. The application: the plans that failed in the previous generation tend to reappear in the next, applied to the same problems. The surrogate arrangement does not resolve the longing in either generation.
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