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

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

3 Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for meF,h 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.G

7 Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God,H I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.I