Genesis 35:19
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New International Version (©2011)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

American King James Version
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

American Standard Version
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, that is Bethlehem.

Darby Bible Translation
And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

English Revised Version
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).

Webster's Bible Translation
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

World English Bible
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

Young's Literal Translation
and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

35:16-20 Rachel had passionately said, Give me children, or else I die; and now that she had children, she died! The death of the body is but the departure of the soul to the world of spirits. When shall we learn that it is God alone who really knows what is best for his people, and that in all worldly affairs the safest path for the Christian is to say from the heart, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. Here alone is our safety and our comfort, to know no will but his. Her dying lips called her newborn son Ben-oni, the son of my sorrow; and many a son proves to be the heaviness of her that bare him. Children are enough the sorrow of their mothers; they should, therefore, when they grow up, study to be their joy, and so, if possible, to make them some amends. But Jacob, because he would not renew the sorrowful remembrance of the mother's death every time he called his son, changed his name to Benjamin, the son of my right hand: that is, very dear to me; the support of my age, like the staff in my right hand.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem - or House of Bread, about seven miles south of Jerusalem. It afterwards became the birthplace of David (1 Samuel 16:18) and of Christ (Matthew 2:1). The assertion that this clause is a later interpolation (Lunge) is unfounded (Kalisch, Kurtz).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. Hence called Bethlehem Ephratah, Micah 5:2; with great pertinency is Rachel represented as if risen from her grave, and weeping for her children, when the children of Bethlehem, and thereabout, were slain by Herod, she being buried so near that place, Matthew 2:16; at what age she died is not said. Polyhistor, out of Demetrius (d), reports, that she died after Jacob had lived with her twenty three years.

(d) Apnd Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 424.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem—The one, the old name; the other, the later name, signifying "house of bread."

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Benjamin is Born, Rachel Dies
…18And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. 19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. 20And Jacob set a pillar on her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

Genesis 35:16 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
Genesis 35:18 As she breathed her last--for she was dying--she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 48:7 As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).
Ruth 1:2 The man's name was Elimelek, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.
Ruth 4:11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time he was very old.
Ezra 2:21 the men of Bethlehem 123
Psalm 132:6 We heard it in Ephrathah, we came upon it in the fields of Jaar:
Micah 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."