Genesis 35
It sounds like Rebekah’s nurse dwelt with her favored son – perhaps after Rebekah died (I can’t remember if we have been informed of her death). Deborah died and then Rachel died while giving birth to Benjamin and that all took place before Isaac died. I had not realized that Isaac lived until after Benjamin had even been born. Of course the children of Jacob had not lived with Isaac because Jacob was living in other lands away from Esau until the Lord told him to return to Beth-el. When Isaac died at 180 he had spent somewhere close to 80 years of his life in blindness (assuming that he remained functionally blind ever since the time Jacob was able to fool him into giving the blessing he planned to give Esau).
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