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.
13. And Leah said, "This one is for my happiness. Indeed, women will call me blessed." Because of this, she called him Asher.
14. Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, "Give me a portion of your son's mandrakes."
15. She responded, "Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son's mandrakes?" Rachel said, "He will sleep with you this night because of your son's mandrakes."
16. And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, "You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night.
17. And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son.
18. And she said, "God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.