“They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 35 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.