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30 Rachel saw that she was not giving Jacob any children. She became jealous of her sister Leah. So Rachel said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die!”

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “I am not God. He is the one who has caused you to not have children.”

Then Rachel said, “You can have my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, and she will have a child for me.[a] Then I can be a mother through her.”

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  1. Genesis 30:3 she will have a child for me Literally, “she will give birth on my knees, and I, too, will have a son through her.”

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