⁷ As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow ^(A)Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance^[a] to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

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] 19} So ^(C)Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to ^(D)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

⁹ God appeared^[a] to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

¹² Now David was ^(A)the son of an ^(B)Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, ^(C)named Jesse, ^(D)who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.^[a]

² When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by ^(A)Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ^(B)‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now ^(C)your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

The Birth of Samuel

1 There was a certain man of ^(A)Ramathaim-zophim of ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, ^(C)an Ephrathite.

² The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were ^(A)Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.