Genesis 30:1-10 ▼

1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, |Give me children or I'll die!|

2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, |Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?|

3 She replied, |Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.|

4 So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

5 Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

6 Then Rachel said, |God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son.| That is why she named him Dan.

7 Bilhah, Rachel's servant, became pregnant again and gave Jacob another son.

8 Then Rachel said, |I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.| So she named him Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

10 Soon Leah's servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.