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When you depart from me today you will meet two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has stopped worrying about them and is worrying about you, saying: “What shall I do about my son?” ’(A)

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Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, had strayed. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the young men with you; go and look for the donkeys.” He passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he passed through the land of Benjamin, but they did not find them.(A)

When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the young man who was with him, “Let us turn back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and worry about us.”(B)

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19 And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,(A) 20 and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.(B)

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16 Saul said to his uncle, “He told us that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.(A)

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28 Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[a] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah,[b] and Kiriath-jearim[c]—fourteen towns with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to its families.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.28 Gk Syr Vg: Heb the Jebusite
  2. 18.28 Heb Gibeath
  3. 18.28 Gk: Heb Kiriath

15 Thus says the Lord:
A voice is heard in Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted for her children,
    because they are no more.(A)

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