Genesis 35:16
And they journeyed from Beit-El; and there was still a space of ha'aretz to get to Ephratah; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15And Ya'akov called the shem of the makom where Elohim spoke with him, Beit-El.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16Unto HaIsha He said, 1 I will greatly multiply thy itzavon ([labor] pain) and thy childbearing; 1 in pain thou shalt bring forth banim; 1 and thy teshukah (longing, desire) shall be to thy husband, 1 and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 48:7And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in Eretz Kena'an in the way, when there was yet but a space of land to go unto Ephratah; and I buried her there by the derech Ephrat; the same is Beit-Lechem.
2 Kings 5:19And he said unto him, Go in shalom. So he departed from him some distance.
Psalms 132:6Hinei, we heard of it at Ephratah; 1 we found it in the sedei Ya'ar (fields of Ya'ar). 1
Matthew 2:1Now after Yehoshua was born in Beit-Lechem Yehudah, in the days of Herod + 2:1 the Great, the Roman client king — hinei! — chachamim from eretz Mizrach (the land of the East) arrived in Yerushalayim,
Matthew 2:18KOL BRAMAH NISHMAH + 2:18 Jer 31:14 (A voice was heard in Ramah), + 2:18 15 a voice of bitter weeping and mourning. Rachel is crying for her yeladim; she refuses to be comforted, because they are no more.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:7-16
Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.… Read the whole commentary →