²⁷ `And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye -- ye have known that two did my wife bare to me,

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

¹⁸ And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, `I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

¹⁹ and Laban saith, `It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;'

²⁰ and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

²¹ And Jacob saith unto Laban, `Give up my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, and I go in unto her;'

²⁸ And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;

²² And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,

²³ and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, `God hath gathered up my reproach;'

²⁴ and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'

²⁵ And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;

¹⁶ And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing;

¹⁷ and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also `is' a son for thee.'

¹⁸ And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;