Zilpah
Zilpah is the handmaid of Laban whom he gave to his daughter Leah when Leah was given to Jacob as a wife. She is the sister of Bilhah. Leah later gave Zilpah to Jacob as a wife, and Zilpah bore sons to Jacob including Gad and Ashur. She is named as the mother of some of the sons of Jacob.
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Zilpah in Jubilees 28
The Book of Jubilees 28:3
And Laban made a feast, and took Leah his elder daughter, and gave (her) to Jacob as a wife, and gave her Zilpah his han...
3nd Laban made a feast, and took Leah his elder daughter, and gave (her) to Jacob as a wife, and gave her Zilpah his handmaid for an hand- maid; and Jacob did not know, for he thought that she was Rachel.
Zilpah in Jubilees 28
The Book of Jubilees 28:9
And on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah had passed, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob, that he might serve him ...
9nd on the day when the seven days of the feast of Leah had passed, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob, that he might serve him another seven years, and he gave to Rachel Bilhah, the sister of Zilpah, as a handmaid.
Zilpah in Jubilees 28
The Book of Jubilees 28:20
And when Leah saw that she had become sterile and did not bear, she envied Rachel, and she also gave her handmaid Zilpah...
20nd when Leah saw that she had become sterile and did not bear, she envied Rachel, and she also gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob to wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and Leah called his name Gad, on the twelfth of the eighth month, in the third year of the fourth week. 2131 A.M.