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

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me[b](A) so that through her I too can build a family.” So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:2 Lit the fruit of the womb
  2. 30:3 Lit bear on my knees

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