Genesis 35:18-20

35:18 With her dying breath, ¹  she named him Ben-Oni. ²  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ³  35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). ⁴  35:20 Jacob set up a marker ⁵  over her grave; it is ⁶  the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

[35:18]  ¹ tn Heb “in the going out of her life, for she was dying.” Rachel named the child with her dying breath.

[35:18]  ² sn The name Ben-Oni means “son of my suffering.” It is ironic that Rachel’s words to Jacob in Gen 30:1, “Give me children or I’ll die,” take a different turn here, for it was having the child that brought about her death.

[35:18]  ³ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive.

[35:19]  ⁴ sn This explanatory note links the earlier name Ephrath with the later name Bethlehem.

[35:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “standing stone.”

[35:20]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “it is known as” (cf. NEB).