1. Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, "Give me children, otherwise I will die."
2. Jacob, being angry, responded to her, "Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?"
3. But she said: "I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her."
4. And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.
5. And when her husband had gone in to her, she conceived and bore a son.
6. And Rachel said, "The Lord has judged for me, and he has heeded my voice, giving me a son." And because of this, she called his name Dan.
7. And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another,
8. about whom Rachel said, "God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed." And she called him Naphtali.
9. Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.
10. And she, after having borne a son with difficulty,
11. said: "Happiness!" And for this reason, she called his name Gad.
12. Likewise, Zilpah bore another.