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Genesis 26:34

Genesis 26:34 is verse 34 of Genesis chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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King James Version

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

World English Bible

When 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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Genesis 26:32–35 · Berean Standard Bible

32 On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

33 So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

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.

35 And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 36:2

Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Genesis 36:5

and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36:13

These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

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,

Exodus 34:16

And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Hebrews 12:16

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

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