Genesis 30:6
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
The verse belongs to the account of the sons born to Jacob during the fourteen years he served Laban for his two daughters in the land of Haran, between his morning at Bethel after his dream in Genesis 28 and his departure from Haran to return to the land of Canaan. Dan was the son borne to Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, as part of the account of the handmaids' children by Jacob. Rachel understood the birth as God judging her cause and hearing her plea by giving her a son, and therefore called his name Dan, meaning judge.
The surrounding events show polygamy bringing very great unhappiness into Jacob's family, which with the families of Abraham and David proves that polygamy was never anything but evil and wrong. The conduct in Genesis 30 violated the marriage institution established before the fall, yet such violations did not diminish the institution's sacred character. The verse falls within Jacob's checkered and unsatisfactory experiences marked by selfish plottings and consequent suffering, showing that God's providence brings retribution sooner or later.
Dan and the other sons born to Bilhah and Zilpah were recognized as free and equal with Jacob's other sons and became heads of tribes in Israel, showing that their mothers were not chattel slaves. Dan and the other sons of the handmaids were recognized as free like Jacob's other sons and shared their father's property equally, showing that their mothers' servant status did not make them or their children chattel slaves.