1 Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, 'Give me children, otherwise I will die.'
2 Jacob, being angry, responded to her, 'Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?'
3 But she said: 'I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.'
4 And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.
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