1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die! ” she said to Jacob.

2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God? He has withheld offspring from you! ”

3 Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me so that through her I too can build a family.”

4 So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

6 Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, he has heard me and given me a son,” so she named him Dan.

Genesis 30:1-6, Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers.
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