²⁷ Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me ^(A)two sons.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance^[a] from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷ And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for ^(A)you have another son.” ¹⁸ And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni;^{[b] (B)}but his father called him Benjamin.^[c]

²² Then God ^(A)remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and ^(B)opened her womb. ²³ She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away ^(C)my reproach.” ²⁴ And she called his name Joseph,^[a] saying, ^(D)“May the Lord add to me another son!”

Jacob's Prosperity

²⁵ As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

²⁸ Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

¹⁸ Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, ^(A)“I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” ¹⁹ Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” ²⁰ So Jacob ^(B)served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”