Genesis 27:46

Translations

Modern

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?”

Traditional

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?

Literal

And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, why to me is life?”

Latin

Dixitque Rebecca ad Isaac: Tædet me vitæ meæ propter filias Heth: si acceperit Jacob uxorem de stirpe hujus terræ, nolo vivere.

Original

Hebrew

English

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?”

Notes

Genesis 27:46

Rebekah convinced Isaac to send Jacob away by carefully planning her words and actions. Like Isaac, Jacob married a woman from his relatives who lived in the east.

Theme notes and profiles

Hittites Isaac Jacob Leah Rebekah Purity and Identity Symbolic Numbers

Related verses

Genesis 24:3
…and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
Genesis 26:34–35
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Genesis 34:1–2
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Numbers 11:15
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
1 Kings 19:4
…while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Job 14:13
If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
Job 3:20–22
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Job 7:16
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Jonah 4:9
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

People

Heth: Son of Canaan and ancestor of the Hittites Isaac: Son of Abraham; father of Jacob and Esau Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Rebekah: Wife of Isaac; mother of Jacob and Esau

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Birthright Ebla Tablets Esau Genealogy Genesis, Book of Hittites Isaac Jacob Leah Nathanael Patriarchs, Period of the Rebecca, Rebekah

Topics

Falsehood: Rebekah and Isaac, in the Conspiracy Against Esau Family: Infelicity In of Isaac, on Account of the Disagreement Between Jacob and Esau Heth: Son of Canaan, and Ancestor of the Hittites Jacob: Esau Seeks to Kill, Escapes to Padan-Aram Rebekah (Rebecca): Sends Jacob to Laban, Her Brother

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