1. When Rachel saw that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She pleaded with Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2. Then Jacob became furious with Rachel. “Am I God?” he asked. “He’s the one who has kept you from having children!”
3. Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me, and through her I can have a family, too.”
4. So Rachel gave her servant, Bilhah, to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
5. Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.
6. Rachel named him Dan, for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”