Genesis 35:16-19

Contemporary English Version

Benjamin Is Born

¹⁶Jacob and his family had left Bethel and were still a long way from Ephrath, when the time came for Rachel's baby to be born. ¹⁷She was having a rough time, but the woman who was helping her said, “Don't worry! It's a boy.” ¹⁸Rachel was at the point of death, and right before dying, she said, “I'll name him Benoni.”^[a] But Jacob called him Benjamin.^[b]

¹⁹Rachel was buried beside the road to Ephrath, which is also called Bethlehem.

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Footnotes

35.18 Benoni: In Hebrew “Benoni” means “Son of my Sorrow.”
35.18 Benjamin: In Hebrew “Benjamin” can mean “Son at my Right Side” (the place of power).

Matthew 2:18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁸^(A) “In Ramah a voice was heard
    crying and weeping loudly.
Rachel was mourning
    for her children,
and she refused
to be comforted,
    because they were dead.”