Genesis 35:19 meaning and explanation

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Genesis 35:19, Berean Standard Bible

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Rachel, Jacob's beloved wife, dies in childbirth while the family is traveling south from Bethel, still some distance from Ephrath. The verse records her burial beside the road, and the parenthetical note identifies Ephrath with Bethlehem, the town later associated with David and with Jesus' birth.

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