Genesis 35
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Genesis 35:16-27

16Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel began to give birth and had difficulty and suffered severely.

17When she was in hard labor the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid; you now have another son.”

18And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (son of the right hand).

19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

20Jacob set a pillar (memorial, monument) on her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

21Then Israel (Jacob) journeyed on and pitched his tent on the other side of the tower of Eder [the lookout point used by shepherds].

22While Israel was living in that land, Reuben [his eldest son] went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons—

23The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

24and the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

25and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali;

26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob born to him in Paddan-aram.

27Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived temporarily.

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