⁹ When Leah^(A) saw that she had stopped having children,^(B) she took her servant Zilpah^(C) and gave her to Jacob as a wife.^{(D) 10} Leah’s servant Zilpah^(E) bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”^[a] So she named him Gad.^[b](F)

¹² Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. ¹³ Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me^(G) happy.”^(H) So she named him Asher.^[c](I)

These were the sons of Jacob,^(D) who were born to him in Paddan Aram.^(E)

² This is the account^(A) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,^(B) a young man of seventeen,^(C) was tending the flocks^(D) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah^(E) and the sons of Zilpah,^(F) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report^(G) about them.

¹⁸ These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah,^(A) whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah^(B)—sixteen in all.