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Genesis 48:7

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet [there was] but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same [is] Bethlehem.

Genesis 48:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Genesis 48:7

Theological / Devotional

Rachel died by me. Joseph’s mother, who had died so early, was also honored, posthumously, in the adoption of Joseph’s two elder sons. This accounts for the allusion made here by Jacob to his beloved Rachel. His words seem to express an unspoken wish that she might have lived to see her first-born son exalted to lordship over the world’s greatest empire of the time, and thereby in a position to become a savior to his father’s house.

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