30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!”(A) she said to Jacob.

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children[a] from you?”

Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me[b](B) so that through her I too can build a family.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 30:2 Lit the fruit of the womb
  2. Genesis 30:3 Lit bear on my knees

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