Genesis 35:20

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Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that pillar marks Rachel's grave to this day.

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  • 1 Sam 10:2 : 2 When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb, in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys you went to find have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and is concerned about you, asking, “What shall I do about my son?”'
  • 2 Sam 18:17-18 : 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a great heap of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes. 18 During his lifetime, Absalom had set up a pillar in the King’s Valley for himself, saying, 'I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.' He named the pillar after himself, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-Aram, and He blessed him.
  • Gen 35:14 : 14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had spoken with him. He poured out a drink offering on it and also poured oil on it.

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  • Gen 35:19
    85%

    19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

  • Gen 31:45-48
    4 verses
    78%

    45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

    46He said to his relatives, 'Gather some stones.' So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

    48Laban said, 'This heap is a witness between you and me today.' That is why it was called Galeed.

  • Gen 48:7
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    7'As for me, when I was coming from Paddan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan, along the way, still some distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.'

  • Gen 35:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had spoken with him. He poured out a drink offering on it and also poured oil on it.

    15Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

    16Then they set out from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

  • Gen 35:21
    73%

    21Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

  • Gen 28:18
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    18Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone he had used as a pillow, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

  • Gen 31:51-52
    2 verses
    72%

    51Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

    52This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.

  • Gen 29:9-12
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    69%

    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 31:34
    69%

    34Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and was sitting on them. Laban searched the entire tent but did not find them.

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    68%

    28Jacob did so and completed the week with Leah. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29Laban also gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

  • Gen 30:1-3
    3 verses
    68%

    1When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children for Jacob, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I will die!'

    2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, 'Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?'

    3Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'

  • Gen 49:31
    68%

    31There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah.

  • Gen 28:11
    68%

    11He came to a certain place, stayed there for the night because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

  • Gen 31:4
    67%

    4So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flock was.

  • Gen 31:19
    67%

    19Meanwhile, Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

  • Gen 31:32
    66%

    32But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

  • Gen 31:14
    66%

    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 35:3
    66%

    3"Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."

  • Gen 30:22
    66%

    22Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

  • Matt 2:18
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    18'A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.'

  • Gen 33:20
    66%

    20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

  • Gen 35:1
    66%

    1God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

  • Gen 30:25
    66%

    25After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, 'Send me on my way so I can go back to my homeland.'