Genesis 35:16
Good News Translation
Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob 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.

New American Bible
Then they departed from Bethel; but while they still had some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and suffered great distress.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

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And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

a little way to come.

2 Kings 5:19 And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the spring time of the earth.

Ephrath.

Genesis 48:7 For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.

Ruth 1:2 He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.

1 Chronicles 2:19 And when Azuba was dead, Caleb took to wife Ephrata: who bore him Hur.

Psalm 132:6 Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood.

Micah 5:2 Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Matthew 2:1,16,18 When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, . . .

hard labour.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

1 Timothy 2:15 Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Context
Benjamin is Born, Rachel Dies
16And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,17By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:19
So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

Genesis 48:7
For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.

Ruth 4:11
Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:

1 Samuel 4:20
And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them not, nor gave heed to them.

1 Samuel 10:2
When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?

Micah 5:2
Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Genesis 35:15
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