Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem).
Matthew 2:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They said to him, *In Beit-Lechem of Yehudah, for thus it is written through the prophet, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written by the prophet, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They replied to him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: American Standard Version (1901) And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written through the prophet, Common English Bible They said, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is what the prophet wrote: Catholic Public Domain Version And they said to him: "In Bethlehem of Judea. For so it has been written by the prophet: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the prophet: |
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem).
Now when Yeshua was born in Beit-Lechem of Yehudah in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Yerushalayim, saying,
Gathering together all the chief Kohanim and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Messiah would be born.
Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Beit-Lechem, the village where David was?*
and Kattat, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Yid'alah, and Beit-Lechem: twelve cities with their villages.
There was a young man out of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah, of the family of Yehudah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah went to sojourn in the country of Mo'av, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
So they two went until they came to Beit-Lechem. It happened, when they were come to Beit-Lechem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Na`omi 1?
Behold, Bo`az came from Beit-Lechem, and said to the reapers, the LORD be with you. They answered him, the LORD bless you.
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous in Beit-Lechem:
The LORD said to Shemu'el, How long will you mourn for Sha'ul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Yisra'el? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Yishai the Beit-Hallachmite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.