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).
20. Then Jacob set up a stone as a marker for her grave. The same marker is at Rachel’s grave today.
21. Israel moved on again and put up his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
22. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had 12 sons.
23. The sons of Leah wereJacob’s firstborn Reuben, then Simeon,Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. The sons of Rachel wereJoseph and Benjamin.
25. The sons of Rachel’s slave Bilhah wereDan and Naphtali.
26. The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah wereGad and Asher.These were Jacob’s sons, who were born in Paddan Aram.
27. Jacob came home to his father Isaac to Mamre’s city, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron). Abraham and Isaac had lived there for a while.
28. Isaac was 180 years old