Genesis 30:1-13
1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!”(A) she said to Jacob.
2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children(a) from you?”
3 Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me(b)(B) 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.
5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6 Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, He has heard me and given me a son,” and she named him Dan.(c)
7 Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8 Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God,(d) I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.(e)
Footnotes:
a.
Genesis 30:2: Lit the fruit of the womb
b.
Genesis 30:3: Lit bear on my knees
c.
Genesis 30:6: In Hb, the name Dan sounds like “has vindicated,” or “has judged.”
d.
Genesis 30:8: Or With mighty wrestlings
e.
Genesis 30:8: In Hb, the name Naphtali sounds like “my wrestling.”
f.
Genesis 30:11: Alt Hb tradition, LXX, Vg read Good fortune has come
g.
Genesis 30:11: Good Fortune
h.
Genesis 30:13: Happy