Genesis 35:20
Good News Translation
Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day.

New Revised Standard Version
and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob set up a tombstone over her grave, and it is still there.

New American Bible
Jacob set up a sacred pillar on her grave, and the same pillar marks Rachel’s grave to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

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And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.

the pillar.

Genesis 35:9,14 And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him, . . .

1 Samuel 10:2 When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?

2 Samuel 18:17,18 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings. . . .

Context
Benjamin is Born, Rachel Dies
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 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.

1 Samuel 10:2
When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?

Genesis 35:19
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