SEV Biblia, Chapter 48:7
Porque cuando yo venía de Padan-aram, se me murió Raquel en la tierra de Canaán, en el camino, como media legua de tierra viniendo a Efrata; y la sepulté allí en el camino de Efrata, que es Belén.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 48:7
Verse 7. Rachel died by me, &c.] Rachel was the wife of Jacob's choice, and the object of his unvarying affection; he loved her in life-he loves her in death: many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. A match of a man's own making when guided by reason and religion, will necessarily be a happy one. When fathers and mothers make matches for their children, which are dictated by motives, not of affection, but merely of convenience, worldly gain, &c., &c., such matches are generally wretched; it is Leah in the place of Rachel to the end of life's pilgrimage.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The death-beds of believers, with the prayers and counsels of dyin persons, are suited to make serious impressions upon the young, the gay, and the prosperous: we shall do well to take children on suc occasions, when it can be done properly. If the Lord please, it is very desirable to bear our dying testimony to his truth, to his faithfulness, and the pleasantness of his ways. And one would wish s to live, as to give energy and weight to our dying exhortations. All true believers are blessed at their death, but all do not depar equally full of spiritual consolations. Jacob adopted Joseph's tw sons. Let them not succeed their father, in his power and grandeur i Egypt; but let them succeed in the inheritance of the promise made to Abraham. Thus the aged dying patriarch teaches these young persons to take their lot with the people of God. He appoints each of them to be the head of a tribe. Those are worthy of double honour, who, throug God's grace, break through the temptations of worldly wealth an preferment, to embrace religion in disgrace and poverty. Jacob wil have Ephraim and Manasseh to know, that it is better to be low, and in the church, than high, and out of it.
Original Hebrew
ואני 589 בבאי 935 מפדן 6307 מתה 4191 עלי 5921 רחל 7354 בארץ 776 כנען 3667 בדרך 1870 בעוד 5750 כברת 3530 ארץ 776 לבא 935 אפרתה 672 ואקברה 6912 שׁם 8033 בדרך 1870 אפרת 672 הוא 1931 בית לחם׃ 1035
