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1 When Rachel saw that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She pleaded with Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2 Then Jacob became furious with Rachel. “Am I God?” he asked. “He’s the one who has kept you from having children!”
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Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3 Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me, and through her I can have a family, too.”
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Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
4 So Rachel gave her servant, Bilhah, to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
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So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
5 Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.
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and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
6 Rachel named him Dan, for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”
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Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Because of this she named him Dan.
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