1.When Racchel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!" 2.Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?" 3.Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I can build a family." 4.So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, 5.and she became pregnant and bore him a son. 6.Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan. 7.Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8.Then Rachel said, "I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won." So she named him Napthtali. 9.When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10.Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11.Then Leah said, "What good fortune!" So she named him Gad. 12.Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13.Then Leah said, "How happy I am! The women will call me happy." So she named him Asher. 14.During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." 15.But she said to her, "Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son;s amndrakes too?" "Very well," Rachel said, "he can sleep with you tonight inreturn for your son's mandrakes." 16.So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slep with her that night. 17.God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18.Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband." So she named him Issachar. 19.Leah conceived again and bore Jascob a sixth son. 20.Then Leah said, "God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have bore him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.
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