SEV Biblia, Chapter 35:16
¶ Y partieron de Bet-el, y había aún como media legua de tierra para llegar a Efrata, cuando dio a luz Raquel, y hubo trabajo en su parto.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:16
Verse 16. There was but a little way to come to Ephrath] The word trbk kibrath, translated here a little way, has greatly perplexed commentators. It occurs only here, in chap. xlviii. 7, and 2 Kings v. 19; and it seems to have been some sort of measure applied to land, as we say a mile, an acre, a rood, a perch; but what the exact quantity of the kibrath was cannot be ascertained. Ephrath, called also Bethlehem, and Bethlehem Ephrata, was the birthplace of our blessed Redeemer. See its meaning Matt. ii. 6.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-20 - Rachel had passionately said, Give me children, or else I die; and no that she had children, she died! The death of the body is but the departure of the soul to the world of spirits. When shall we learn tha it is God alone who really knows what is best for his people, and tha in all worldly affairs the safest path for the Christian is to say from the heart, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. Here alon is our safety and our comfort, to know no will but his. Her dying lip called her newborn son Ben-oni, the son of my sorrow; and many a so proves to be the heaviness of her that bare him. Children are enoug the sorrow of their mothers; they should, therefore, when they grow up study to be their joy, and so, if possible, to make them some amends But Jacob, because he would not renew the sorrowful remembrance of the mother's death every time he called his son, changed his name to Benjamin, the son of my right hand: that is, very dear to me; the support of my age, like the staff in my right hand.
Original Hebrew
ויסעו 5265 מבית אל 1008 ויהי 1961 עוד 5750 כברת 3530 הארץ 776 לבוא 935 אפרתה 672 ותלד 3205 רחל 7354 ותקשׁ 7185 בלדתה׃ 3205
