Genesis 26:35
New International Version
They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

New Living Translation
But Esau’s wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.

English Standard Version
and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

Berean Standard Bible
And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

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

New King James Version
And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.

New American Standard Bible
and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

NASB 1995
and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

NASB 1977
and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Legacy Standard Bible
and they brought bitterness to Isaac and Rebekah.

Amplified Bible
and they were a source of grief to [Esau’s parents] Isaac and Rebekah.

Christian Standard Bible
They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

American Standard Version
and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they grieved the spirit of Isaac and of Raphqa.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they were provoking to Isaac and Rebecca.

Contemporary English Version
But these two women brought a lot of grief to Esau's parents Isaac and Rebekah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

English Revised Version
and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These women brought Isaac and Rebekah a lot of grief.

Good News Translation
They made life miserable for Isaac and Rebecca.

International Standard Version
This brought extreme grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Literal Standard Version
and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

Majority Standard Bible
And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

New American Bible
But they became a source of bitterness to Isaac and Rebekah.

NET Bible
They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

New Revised Standard Version
and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

New Heart English Bible
They brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.

World English Bible
They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

Young's Literal Translation
and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

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Context
Esau's Wives
34When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

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 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?"

Genesis 28:8
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,


Treasury of Scripture

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

Which.

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.

Genesis 27:46
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?

Genesis 28:1,2,8
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan…

grief of mind.

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Genesis 26
1. Isaac, because of famine, sojourns in Gerar, and the Lord blesses him.
7. He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12. He grows rich, and the Philistines envy his prosperity.
18. He digs wells.
23. God appears to him at Beersheba, and blesses him;
26. and Abimelech makes a covenant with him.
34. Esau's wives.














Verse 35. - Which were a grief of mind (literally, bitterness of spirit) unto Isaac and to Rebekah - possibly because of their personal characters, but chiefly because of their Canaanitish descent, and because in marrying them Esau had not only violated the Divine law which forbade polygamy, but also evinced an utterly irreligious and unspiritual disposition.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And
וַתִּהְיֶ֖יןָ (wat·tih·ye·nā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

they brought
ר֑וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

grief
מֹ֣רַת (mō·raṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 4786: Bitterness, trouble

to Isaac
לְיִצְחָ֖ק (lə·yiṣ·ḥāq)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3327: Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah

and Rebekah.
וּלְרִבְקָֽה׃ (ū·lə·riḇ·qāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7259: Rebekah -- wife of Isaac


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