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Genesis 26:35

IsaacRebekah
GriefParents and children

33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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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.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 27:46–28:2

    And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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  • Genesis 28:8

    And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

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  • Genesis 6:2

    That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

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