1. And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.
2. And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
3. But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
4. And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,
5. When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.