“And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.”
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her. The compliance is recorded without comment. Jacob does what he is asked; the cycle of the Hagar episode begins again in the next generation. The application: patterns established in one generation become the available options for the next. Jacob reaches for the same tool Abram reached for.
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