1 When Rachel saw that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She pleaded with Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2 Then Jacob became furious with Rachel. “Am I God?” he asked. “He’s the one who has kept you from having children!”
3 Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me, and through her I can have a family, too.”
4 So Rachel gave her servant, Bilhah, to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
5 Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.
6 Rachel named him Dan, for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”