When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
Genesis 35:18 - English Standard Version 2016 And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And as her soul was departing, for she died, she called his name Ben-oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Benjamin [son of the right hand]. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. Common English Bible As her life faded away, just before she died, she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin. Catholic Public Domain Version Then, when her life was departing because of the pain, and death was now imminent, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain. Yet truly, his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, The son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, The son of the right hand. |
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.”
But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.
May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers’ bosom.
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.