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-\v 16 They journeyed on from Bethel.  While they was still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had hard labor.
+\v 16 They journeyed on from Bethel.  While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had hard labor.
 \v 17 While she was in hardest labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son."
 \v 18 As she was dying, with her dying breath she named him Benoni, but his father called him Benjamin.
 \v 19 Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).