1 But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die.”
2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “I can't take the place of God. He is the one who keeps you from having children.”
3 She said, “Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her.”
4 So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.
5 Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.
6 Rachel said, “God has judged in my favour. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son”; so she named him Dan.
7 Bilhah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a second son.