46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, (A)“I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; (B)if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Jacob Sent to His Uncle Laban

28 Then Isaac called Jacob and (C)blessed him, and [a]charged him, and said to him: (D)“You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. (E)Arise, go to (F)Padan Aram, to the house of (G)Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of (H)Laban your mother’s brother.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:1 commanded

46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite(A) women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land,(B) from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”(C)

28 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed(D) him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.(E) Go at once to Paddan Aram,[a](F) to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel.(G) Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.(H)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:2 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7