1. WHEN RACHEL saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die!
2. And Jacob became very angry with Rachel and he said, Am I in God's stead, Who has denied you children?
3. And she said, See here, take my maid Bilhah and have intercourse with her; and [when the baby comes] she shall deliver it upon my knees, that I by her may also have children.
4. And she gave him Bilhah her maid as a [secondary] wife, and Jacob had intercourse with her.
5. And Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.
6. And Rachel said, God has judged and vindicated me, and has heard my plea and has given me a son; so she named him Dan [judged].
7. And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8. And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings [in prayer to God] I have struggled with my sister and have prevailed; so she named him [this second son Bilhah bore] Naphtali [struggled].
9. When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she gave Zilpah her maid to Jacob as a [secondary] wife.
10. And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son.
11. Then Leah said, Victory and good fortune have come; and she named him Gad [fortune].
12. Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob [her] second son.
13. And Leah said, I am happy, for women will call me blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied); and she named him Asher [happy].
14. Now Reuben went at the time of wheat harvest and found some mandrakes (love apples) in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, some of your son's mandrakes.
15. But [Leah] answered, Is it not enough that you have taken my husband without your taking away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Jacob shall sleep with you tonight [in exchange] for your son's mandrakes.
16. And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have certainly paid your hire with my son's mandrakes. So he slept with her that night.