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24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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

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  1. 30.24 That is, he adds

19 The children of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.(A) 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.(B) 21 The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.(C) 22 These are the children of Rachel who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.

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The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel

16 Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. 17 When she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for now you have another son.”(A) 18 As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni,[a] but his father called him Benjamin.[b]

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  1. 35.18 That is, son of my sorrow
  2. 35.18 That is, son of the right hand or son of the south