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Jacob became angry with Rachel. He said, ‘Am I God? God has stopped you from giving birth to children!’ Rachel said, ‘Take my servant Bilhah and have sex with her. Then she can have children on my behalf. Through her, I can have a family.’[a]

So Rachel gave her servant Bilhah to Jacob to become his wife.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:3 Sarah had said the same thing to Abraham about Hagar. See Genesis 16:2