Genesis 26:34
Hebrew Text— Genesis 26:34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;
Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”
Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.