1. When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die! ” she said to Jacob.
2. Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children from you? ”
3. Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me so that through her I too can build a family.”
4. So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.