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

¹⁹ The ^(A)sons of Rachel, ^(B)Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.

Death of Rachel

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷ Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; ^(A)you will have this son also.” ¹⁸ And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name ^[a]Ben-Oni; but his father called him ^[b]Benjamin.

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

Jacob’s Agreement with Laban

²⁵ And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, ^(E)“Send me away, that I may go to ^(F)my own place and to my country.

²⁸ Then Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also.

¹⁸ Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, ^(A)“I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

¹⁹ And Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.” ²⁰ So Jacob ^(B)served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.

²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may ^(C)go in to her.”