Bible Strands
Genesis 27:46
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?”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Rebekah speaks to Isaac immediately after sending Jacob away to Haran. She voices her distress over Esau’s Hittite wives and the threat of Jacob marrying one of them.
The words — The Hebrew קַצְתִּי (qatzti) renders literally as "I loathe" or "I am weary of," capturing Rebekah’s visceral reaction to the Hittite women listed in the narrative.
The thread — This concern follows the covenant boundary established in Genesis 24:3, connects to the specific Hittite marriages recorded in Genesis 26:34, and aligns with Isaac’s later disapproval of Canaanite women in Genesis 28:8.
Why it lands — The text demands a reader acknowledge that preserving covenant lineage requires active separation from surrounding pagan alliances, prioritizing long-term faithfulness over immediate familial comfort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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?
Cross-references
- 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 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 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 3:20 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.
- 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!
- Jonah 4:3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”