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Rahel dies giving birth to Benyamin

35:16 Rahel dies giving birth to Benyamin

16 Then they moved on from Beyt -El (Bethel), and there was still quite a distance to go to reach to the town of Efrat. Then Rahel (Rachel) went into labour, but was having great difficulty in delivering the baby. 17 At one point when she was in hard labour, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid. You’ve got another son.” 18 But Rahel was dying, and as her spirit was leaving her, she named the baby ‘Ben -Oni’ (which means ‘son of my sorrow’), but afterwards Ya’akov (Jacob) renamed him ‘Benyamin’ (which means ‘son of my right hand’).

19 Thus Rahel died and was buried on the path to Efrat (which is now called Beyt -Lehem (Bethlehem)). 20 Ya’akov set up a stone pillar over her grave—that’s the pillar of Rahel’s grave to this day. 21 Then Yisrael (Israel) and his household moved on and pitched their tents beyond Migdal Eder.