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Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to ^(C1)Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.

And when she was suffering severe difficulties in her labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for ^(C1)you have another son!"

And it came about, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him ^(F1)Ben-oni; but his father called him ^(F2)Benjamin.

So ^(C1)Rachel died and was buried on the way to ^(C2)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

And Jacob set up a memorial stone over her grave; that is the ^(C1)memorial stone of Rachel's grave to this day.