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Genesis 35:15-28 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

15. Jacob named the place where God spoke to him Bethel.

16. Then they departed from Bethel; but while they still had some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and suffered great distress.

17. When her labor was most intense, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”

18. With her last breath—for she was at the point of death—she named him Ben-oni; but his father named him Benjamin.

19. Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the road to Ephrath (now Bethlehem).

20. Jacob set up a sacred pillar on her grave, and the same pillar marks Rachel’s grave to this day.

21. Israel moved on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.

22. While Israel was encamped in that region, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. When Israel heard of it, he was greatly offended. The sons of Jacob were now twelve.

23. The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

24. the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

25. the sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali;

26. the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27. Jacob went home to his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (now Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

28. The length of Isaac’s life was one hundred and eighty years;

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