Discovery BoxGenesis 25:20 
Context25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, 1 the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 2
Genesis 26:34
Context26:34 When 3 Esau was forty years old, 4 he married 5 Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:9
Context28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married 6 Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.
1 tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”
2 sn Some valuable information is provided here. We learn here that Isaac married thirty-five years before Abraham died, that Rebekah was barren for twenty years, and that Abraham would have lived to see Jacob and Esau begin to grow up. The death of Abraham was recorded in the first part of the chapter as a “tidying up” of one generation before beginning the account of the next.
3 tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator (“and it happened”), making this clause subordinate to the next.
4 tn Heb “the son of forty years.”
5 tn Heb “took as a wife.”
6 tn Heb “took for a wife.”
