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Genesis 35:11-21 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

11. and he said to him: "I am Almighty God: increase and multiply. Tribes and peoples of nations will be from you, and kings will go forth from your loins.

12. And the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your offspring after you."

13. And he withdrew from him.

14. In truth, he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him, pouring out libations over it, and pouring oil,

15. and he called the name of that place, 'Bethel.'

16. Then, departing from there, he arrived in springtime at the land that leads to Ephrath. And there, when Rachel was giving birth,

17. because it was a difficult birth, she began to be in danger. And the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you will have this son also."

18. Then, when her life was departing because of the pain, and death was now imminent, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain. Yet truly, his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

19. And so Rachel died, and she was buried in the way that leads to Ephrath: this place is Bethlehem.

20. And Jacob erected a monument over her sepulcher. This is the monument to Rachel's tomb, even to the present day.

21. Departing from there, he pitched his tent beyond the Tower of the Flock.

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