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The Death of Rachel
Genesis 35:16-20
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Then they traveled on from Beit-El, and while there was still some distance to go before arriving in Efrat, Rachel went into labor, and she had great difficulty with it.
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While she was undergoing this hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't worry, this is also a son for you."
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But she died in childbirth. As she was dying she named her son Ben-Oni [son of my grief], but his father called him Binyamin [son of the right hand, son of the south].
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So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Efrat (that is, Beit-Lechem).
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Ya'akov set up a standing-stone on her grave; it is the stand-ing-stone of Rachel's grave to this day.
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