Genesis 35:8
Good News Translation
Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named "Oak of Weeping."

New Revised Standard Version
And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.

Contemporary English Version
While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it "Weeping Oak."

New American Bible
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. She was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was named Allon-bacuth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

Rebekah's.

Genesis 24:59 So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company.

under an oak.

1 Samuel 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.

Allon-bachuth.

Judges 2:1,5 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever: . . .

Context
Jacob Returns to Bethel
7And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother. 8At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.
Cross References
Genesis 24:59
So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company.

Judges 4:5
And she sat under a palm tree, which was called by her name, between Rama and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for all judgment.

1 Samuel 10:3
And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.

Genesis 35:7
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