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Genesis 35:13-29 World Messianic Bible (WMB)

13. God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14. Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

15. Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

16. They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

17. When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

18. As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

19. Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

20. Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

21. Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22. While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.Now the sons of Jacob were 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 Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

26. The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

27. Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

28. The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

29. Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

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