16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
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Verse 16. Spring. Hebrew cibrath. Septuagint leave it untranslated, Chalratha, though they render it horse-race, (verse 19) and join both together. Calmet. 48:7. The word occurs again, 4 Kennicott. 5:19; and S. Jerom translates it the spring, or the finest time of the earth. Others suppose it signifies the high road, (verse 19) or horse-course, or a mile, and so forth as if the place, where Rachel died, and not the season of the year, were designated. Calmet concludes, she died about the distance of an acre (sillon, furrow or ridge) from Ephrata. But there seems to be no reason why we should recede from the Vulgate. Bible.
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