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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"
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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"
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Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
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Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and even I may have children through her."
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So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.
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And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
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