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1 Rachel when she sawe that she bare Iacob no children, she enuied her sister, and sayde vnto Iacob: Geue me children, or els I am but dead. 2 And Iacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe? 3 Then she sayde: Here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my knees, that I also may haue chyldren by her. 4 And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her. 5 And Bilha conceaued, and bare Iacob a sonne. Genesis 30:1-5, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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