Genesis 30:1–13

³⁰When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”^{* 2}Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”^{* 3}Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her.”^{* 4}So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.^{* 5}And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. ⁶Then Rachel said, “God has judged me and has also heard my voice and given me a son”; therefore she named him Dan.^{x* 7}Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. ⁸Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed,” so she named him Naphtali.^y*

⁹When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.^{* 10}Then Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. ¹¹And Leah said, “Good fortune!” So she named him Gad.^{z 12}Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. ¹³And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy,” so she named him Asher.^a*