Genesis 30:1-24 - Jacob's Children
1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!”
2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children
3 Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me
7 Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God,
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”
12 When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son, 13 Leah said, “I am happy that the women call me happy,”
14 Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field.
15 But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?”
“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
16 When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.
22 Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.