God's Word Translation

Genesis 35:12-19 God's Word Translation (GW)

12. I will give you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. I will also give this land to your descendants.”

13. Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him.

14. So Jacob set up a memorial, a stone marker, to mark the place where God had spoken with him. He poured a wine offering and olive oil on it.

15. Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel [House of God].

16. Then they moved on from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and was having severe labor pains.

17. During one of her pains, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid! You’re having another son!”

18. Rachel was dying. As she took her last breath, she named her son Benoni [Son of My Sorrow], but his father named him Benjamin [Son of My Right Hand].

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