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


In Context

13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him |Bethel.|

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

17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, |Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son.|

18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

35:16Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

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 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.