Holman Christian Standard Bible

Genesis 30:1-6 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1. When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die! ” she said to Jacob.

2. Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children from you? ”

3. Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me so that through her I too can build a family.”

4. So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

5. Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

6. Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, He has heard me and given me a son,” and she named him Dan.