Genesis 35:20 Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.

English Standard Version
and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

New American Standard Bible
Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

King James Bible
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel's grave to this day.

International Standard Version
Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day.

American Standard Version
And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulcher: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which is the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. and Jacob set a pillar on her grave … unto this day—The spot still marked out as the grave of Rachel exactly agrees with the Scriptural record, being about a mile from Beth-lehem. Anciently it was surmounted by a pyramid of stones, but the present tomb is a Mohammedan erection.