Genesis 30:1
1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
Jacob got trouble for his double, Rebecca and Leah. One, the love of his life and the other a wife he doesn’t love. As with other ills of polygamy, the wives are at war for the sole affection of their man. Weapon of choice? Children! They make for good arrows & baby names make fine daggers. It’s now a race to fill their quiver and drive right at the other's heart. Poor Jacob is caught in the crossfire. But of what benefit is this narrative to us?