Event
Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin
- Date:
- 1738 BC
- Duration:
- 1D
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Participants 3
Locations 1
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- Genesis 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
- Genesis 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
- Genesis 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
- Genesis 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
- Genesis 35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
- Genesis 35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
- Genesis 35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
- Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
- Genesis 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
- Genesis 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
- Genesis 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.