Genesis 30:1-6

1 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 Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3 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 she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
5 and she became pregnant and bore him a son.
6 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.[a]

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Genesis 11:30; Isaiah 49:21; Isaiah 54:1; Genesis 29:31; 1 Samuel 1:5-6
  • 2. S Genesis 16:4; Leviticus 18:18
  • 3. Genesis 50:19; Deuteronomy 32:35; 2 Kings 5:7
  • 4. S Genesis 16:2; Genesis 20:18; Genesis 29:31
  • 5. ver 7; S Genesis 29:29
  • 6. S Genesis 24:61
  • 7. Genesis 16:2
  • 8. ver 9,18
  • 9. Genesis 16:3-4
  • 10. Psalms 35:24; Psalms 43:1; Lamentations 3:59
  • 11. ver 23; Genesis 21:2; Ruth 4:13; 1 Samuel 1:20
  • 12. Genesis 46:23; Genesis 49:16-17; Numbers 26:42-43; Joshua 19:40-48; Judges 1:34; Judges 13:2; Judges 18:2; Jeremiah 4:15; Jeremiah 8:16; Ezekiel 48:1

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "Dan" here means "he has vindicated."
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