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Genesis 35:16-29 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

22. And when he was living in that region, Reuben went out, and he slept with Bilhah the concubine of his father, which was not such a small matter as to be hidden from him. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

23. The sons of Leah: Reuben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

25. The sons of Bilhah, handmaid of Rachel: Dan and Naphtali.

26. The sons of Zilpah, handmaid of Leah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

27. And then he went to his father Isaac in Mamre, the city of Arba: this place is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28. And the days of Isaac were completed: one hundred and eighty years.

29. And being consumed by old age, he died. And he was placed with his people, being old and full of days. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

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