28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 2 As he blessed him, 3 Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 4
1 tn Heb “daughter.” Rebekah was actually the granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. One can either translate the Hebrew term בַּת (bat) as “daughter,” in which case the term אָח (’akh) must be translated more generally as “relative” rather than “brother” (cf. NASB, NRSV) or one can translate בַּת as “granddaughter,” in which case אָח may be translated “brother” (cf. NIV).
2 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
3 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
4 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”