“And they journeyed from Beth–el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.”
Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. The journey resumes after Bethel — and immediately the next crisis arrives. Rachel, who prayed for another son in Genesis 30:24, goes into the labor that will answer the prayer at the cost of her life. The application: the covenant journey continues after the mountain. The difficulty of childbirth follows immediately on the heels of the Bethel encounter.
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