Assertion: handmaid | /r/HasProperty | bilhah
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Source sentences:
text: Frustrated, Rachel offered up her handmaid, Bilhah, to Jacob as a "vessel" through which she could have children.
text: Therefore, she is forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders", the ruling class of men, and is known as a "Handmaid" based on the biblical story of Rachel and her handmaid Bilhah.
text: In the first story, Jacob's infertile wife Rachel offers up her handmaid Bilhah to be a surrogate mother on her behalf, and then her sister Leah does the same with her own handmaid Zilpah (even though Leah has already given Jacob many sons).
text: And she saith, 'Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;'
text: To justify the ceremony, commanders quote scripture before it begins—Genesis 30, where Jacob’s barren wife Rachel offers up her handmaid Bilhah (Bee-Law) so that Rachel “may also have children by her.
text: For example: The handmaids Bilhah and Zilpah bear children for the matriarchs Leah and Rachel.
text: In the story, Rachel was unable to conceive children, so she suggested that Jacob impregnate Rachel's handmaid Bilhah and thus get children that way.