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Zilpah

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Zilpah (zĭl`pə), in the Bible, Leah's maid, mother of two of Jacob's sons.
Zilpah
Old Testament Leah's maidservant, who bore Gad and Asher to Jacob (Genesis 30:10--13)


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Jacob is married to Leah and Rachel simultaneously and also has sesxual intercourse with their servants Bilhah and Zilpah (Gen 29-30).
ML To Zilpah Grant, December 1,1823, quoted in Marion Lansing, Mary Lyon Through Her Letters (Boston 1937), 42-43.
 
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