1. Rachel saw that she was not giving birth to children for Jacob. So she envied her sister Leah. Rachel said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2. Jacob became angry with her. He said, “Can I do what only God can do? He is the one who has kept you from having children.”
3. Then Rachel said, “Here is my slave girl Bilhah. Have physical relations with her so she can give birth to a child for me. Then I can have my own family through her.”
4. So Rachel gave Bilhah, her slave girl, to Jacob as a wife. And he had physical relations with her.
5. She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.