Good News Bible Anglicised

Genesis 30:3-12 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

3. She said, “Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her.”

4. So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.

5. Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.

6. Rachel said, “God has judged in my favour. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son”; so she named him Dan.

7. Bilhah became pregnant again and bore Jacob a second son.

8. Rachel said, “I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won”; so she named him Naphtali.

9. When Leah realized that she had stopped having children, she gave her slave Zilpah to Jacob as his wife.

10. Then Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

11. Leah said, “I have been lucky”; so she named him Gad.

12. Zilpah bore Jacob another son,