Catholic Public Domain Version

Genesis 30:1-7 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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,