1 Now when Rachel saw that ashe bore Jacob no children, Rachel benvied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, cor else I die!”
2 And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, a“Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
3 So she said, “Here is amy maid Bilhah; go in to her, band she will bear a child on my knees, cthat I also may have children by her.”
4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid aas wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6 Then Rachel said, “God has ajudged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name1 Dan.
7 And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8 Then Rachel said, “With1 great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name2 Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and agave her to Jacob as wife.
10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 Then Leah said,1 “A troop comes!” So she called his name2 Gad.
12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters awill call me blessed.” So she called his name1 Asher.
14 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, a“Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15 But she said to her, a“Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” And he lay with her that night.
17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name1 Issachar.
19 Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name1 Zebulun.
21 Afterward she bore a adaughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 Then God aremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and bopened her womb.
23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away amy reproach.”
24 So she called his name1 Joseph, and said, a“The Lord shall add to me another son.”
Jacob’s Agreement with Laban
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, a“Send me away, that I may go to bmy own place and to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children afor whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which bI have done for you.”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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