1. When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children or I’ll die!”
2. Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3. She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”
4. So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.
5. Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.