¹⁹ So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem^(A)).

¹¹ All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah,^(A) who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.

¹² Now David was the son of the Ephrathite^(A) from Bethlehem of Judah named Jesse. Jesse had eight sons^(B) and during Saul’s reign was already an old man.