How many years after Jacob's return to Canaan did Rachel die?
Rachel died ten years after Jacob returned to the land of Canaan. According to the biblical timeline, she died in childbirth with Benjamin, which occurred a decade after Jacob came back with his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and his eleven sons. This ten-year interval follows Jacob’s return from Paddan Aram.
Les explains that Jacob went up to Paddan Aram, where Abraham’s relatives had settled, and returned twenty years later with his wives Rachel and Leah, their handmaids, and eleven sons. Benjamin was born after Jacob came back to Canaan. Then, ten years after Jacob’s return to the land of Canaan, Rachel died in childbirth with Benjamin. Les also notes that another fifteen years passed before Jacob reconnected with Abraham in southern Israel, down in Beersheba, and that Isaac later died at 180, when Jacob and Esau were 120 and Joseph was 29.