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Genesis 35:15-29 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

15. He named the place Bethel.

16. Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labour.

17. When her labour pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, “Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy.”

18. But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

19. When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.

20. Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day.

21. Jacob moved on and set up his camp on the other side of the tower of Eder.

22. While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious.Jacob had twelve sons.

23. The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's eldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

24. The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

25. The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

26. The sons of Leah's slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These sons were born in Mesopotamia.

27. Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

28. Isaac lived to be 180 years old

29. and died at a ripe old age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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