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But Jacob became upset with Rachel and answered, “Don't blame me! I'm not God.”

“Here, take my servant Bilhah,” Rachel told him. “Have children by her, and I'll let them be born on my knees to show that they are mine.”

Then Rachel let Jacob marry Bilhah,

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Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God,(A) who has kept you from having children?”(B)

Then she said, “Here is Bilhah,(C) my servant.(D) Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”(E)

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife.(F) Jacob slept with her,(G)

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