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.