16Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.


In Context

13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.

14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

15 Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.

16 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

17 And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son."

18 As she breathed her last-for she was dying-she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And going forth from thence, he came in the springtime to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.