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As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”
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Verse 7. For when, and so forth Hebrew “as for me.” Do not wonder that I should so earnestly desire to be laid in the tomb of Mambre, whereas your mother was buried at Ephrata. I was in a manner forced to bury her there, by the heat of the weather, ( Menochius.) and the confusion to which my family was then exposed, on account of the slaughter of the Sichemites. Bible.—That place was, moreover, to be honoured with the birth of the Messias. Saint Augustine q. 165.
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