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."