The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac (GEN 35:16-29)

[35:16] Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.

[35:17] And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.”

[35:18] And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

[35:19] So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

[35:20] and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

[35:21] Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

[35:22] While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

[35:23] The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

[35:24] The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

[35:25] The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.

[35:26] The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.

[35:27] And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

[35:28] Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

[35:29] And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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