Genesis 35:19
Good News Translation
When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.

New Revised Standard Version
So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

Contemporary English Version
Rachel was buried beside the road to Ephrath, which is also called Bethlehem.

New American Bible
Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the road to Ephrath (now Bethlehem).

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

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So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

Rachel died.

Genesis 48:7 For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.

Ephrath.

Joshua 19:15 And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem: twelve cities and their villages.

Ruth 1:2 He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.

Ruth 4:11 Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:

Micah 5:2 Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Micah 6:2 Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.

Matthew 2:1,6,18 When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, . . .

Context
Benjamin is Born, Rachel Dies
18And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand. 19So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.20And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:16
And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

Genesis 35:18
And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

Genesis 48:7
For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.

Ruth 1:2
He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.

Ruth 4:11
Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:

1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda, before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.

Ezra 2:21
The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.

Psalm 132:6
Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood.

Micah 5:2
Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Genesis 35:18
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