Genesis 26:35
33 So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
- KJV
- Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
- WEB
- They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
- ASV
- And they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
- DARBY
- And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebecca.
- BLB
- and they were a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.
- ÅB
- Men de ble en hjertesorg for Isak og Rebekka.
[^1]: strid.
[^2]: fiendskap.
[^3]: åpent rom.
[^4]: ed.
[^5]: 1MO 21, 31. - OTB
- De brakte sorg til Isak og Rebekka.
- B1930
- Men de blev en hjertesorg for Isak og Rebekka.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 27:46–28:2
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
Read in contextGenesis 28:8
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Read in contextGenesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Read in context