SEV Biblia, Chapter 35:20
Y puso Jacob un título sobre su sepultura: éste es el título de la sepultura de Raquel hasta hoy.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:20
Verse 20. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave] Was not this the origin of funeral monuments? In ancient times, and among rude nations, a heap of stones designated the burial place of the chief; many of these still remain in different countries. Afterwards a rude stone, with a simple inscription, was used, containing only the name of the deceased, and that of his father. But where arts and sciences flourished, superb monuments were erected highly decorated, and pompously inscribed. It is very likely from the circumstances of Jacob that a single stone constituted the pillar in this case, on which, if writing did then exist, the name, or rather some hieroglyphical device, was probably inscribed. That which is now called Rachel's pillar is allowed, by those who have examined it, to be a comparatively modern structure.
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
ויצב 5324 יעקב 3290 מצבה 4676 על 5921 קברתה 6900 הוא 1931 מצבת 4678 קברת 6900 רחל 7354 עד 5704 היום׃ 3117
