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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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Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son"; therefore she called his name Dan.
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Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
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Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed"; so she called his name Naph'tali.
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When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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Then Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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And Leah said, "Good fortune!" so she called his name Gad.
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Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
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And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the women will call me happy"; so she called his name Asher.
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In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me, I pray, some of your son's mandrakes."
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But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
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When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
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And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
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Leah said, "God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband"; so she called his name Is'sachar.
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And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.
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Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she called his name Zeb'ulun.
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Afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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Then God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.
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She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach";
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and she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!"