Genesis 30
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Genesis 30:3-9

3Then 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.”

4So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,

5and she became pregnant and bore him a son.

6Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Because of this she named him Dan.

7Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

8Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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