1. When Rachel saw that she was not having children for Jacob, she envied her sister Leah. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2. Jacob became angry with her and said, “Can I do what only God can do? He is the one who has kept you from having children.”
3. Then Rachel said, “Here is my slave girl Bilhah. Have sexual relations with her so she can give birth to a child for me. Then I can have my own family through her.”
4. So Rachel gave Bilhah, her slave girl, to Jacob as a wife, and he had sexual relations with her.
5. She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
6. Rachel said, “God has judged me innocent. He has listened to my prayer and has given me a son,” so she named him Dan.
7. Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.
8. Rachel said, “I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won.” So she named that son Naphtali.
9. Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
10. When Zilpah had a son,
11. Leah said, “I am lucky,” so she named him Gad.