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Following the example of Sarah, who gave her handmaid to Abraham after years of infertility, Rachel gave Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, in marriage so that Rachel could raise children through her.
Seeing that she had left off childbearing temporarily, Leah then gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob in marriage so that Leah could raise more children through her.
( According to The Testaments of the Patriarchs, Bilhah and Zilpah were daughters of Rotheus and Euna, servants of Laban.
) Afterwards, Leah became fertile again and gave birth to Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, Jacob's first and only daughter.
If pregnancies of different marriages overlapped, the twelve births could have occurred within seven years ( the first eleven births occur within six years-Genesis 31: 38 ).
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