46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, (A)“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.[a] (B)If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:46 Hebrew daughters of Heth

So when Esau saw (A)that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

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34 When Esau was forty years old, he took (A)Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35 and (B)they made life bitter[a] for Isaac and Rebekah.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:35 Hebrew they were bitterness of spirit

that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that (A)you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

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13 Oh that you would (A)hide me in (B)Sheol,
    that you would (C)conceal me (D)until your wrath be past,
    that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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16 I (A)loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    (B)Leave me alone, for my days are (C)a breath.

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20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
    and life to (A)the bitter in soul,
21 who (B)long for death, but it comes not,
    and dig for it more than for (C)hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
    and are glad when they find the grave?

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But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. (A)And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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15 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

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The Defiling of Dinah

34 Now (A)Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of (B)Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.

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But God said to Jonah, (A)“Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”

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(A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, (B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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