Good News Bible Anglicised

Genesis 30:4-15 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

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,

13. and Leah said, “How happy I am! Now women will call me happy”; so she named him Asher.

14. During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”

15. Leah answered, “Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes.”Rachel said, “If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight.”