Zilpah is referenced in the genealogy in Genesis 46:18. Bilah is cited a few verses later in verse 25 of the same genealogy. With that I think we can say Zilpah and Bilah are matriarchs. Wilda Gafney in her book Womanist Midrash writes movingly, albeit briefly, on Zilpah and Bilah.

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