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People of the Bible

Zilpah

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Birth of Gad · 1752 BC
Birth of Asher · 1751 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Drooping, Leah’s handmaid, and the mother of Gad and Asher (Gen. 30:9-13).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 7 verses

Genesis: 29:24, 30:9, 30:10, 30:12, 35:26, 37:2, 46:18

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.