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BrLXXἘσκίρτων δὲ τὰ παιδία ἐν αὐτῇ· εἶπε δὲ, εἰ οὕτω μοι μέλλει γίνεσθαι, ἵνα τί μοι τοῦτο; ἐπορεύθη δὲ πυθέσθαι παρὰ Κυρίου. (Eskirtōn de ta paidia en autaʸ; eipe de, ei houtō moi mellei ginesthai, hina ti moi touto; eporeuthaʸ de puthesthai para Kuriou. )
BrTrAnd the babes leaped within her; and she said, If it will be so with me, why is this to me? And she went to enquire of the Lord.
ULTAnd the children struggled against each other inside her, so she said, “Why is this so? Why am I like this?” And she went to inquire of Yahweh.
USTBut the two babies wrestled with each other inside her, so she asked, “Why is this happening to me?” Then she asked Yahweh about it.
BSB § But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
OEBThe children struggled against each other in her womb, and she said, ‘Why is this happening to me? What does it mean?’ She went to ask the Lord,
WEBBEThe children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to enquire of the LORD.
NETBut the children struggled inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” So she asked the Lord,
LSVand the children struggle together within her, and she says, “If [it is] right—why [am] I thus?” And she goes to seek YHWH.
FBVThe twin babies inside her struggled with each other. So she asked the Lord, “Why is this happening to me?”
T4TShe was carrying twins in her womb, and they kept jostling each other. So she said, “Why is it that this is happening to me?” So she asked Yahweh about it.
LEBAnd the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant?”[fn] And she went to inquire of Yahweh.
BBEAnd the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.
JPSAnd the children struggled together within her; and she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD.
ASVAnd the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
DRABut the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.
YLTand the children struggle together within her, and she saith, 'If [it is] right — why [am] I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.
DrbyAnd the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
RVAnd the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
WbstrAnd the children struggled together within her: and she said, If it is so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
KJB-1769And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
KJB-1611And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? and shee went to enquire of the LORD. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)
BshpsAnd the childre stroue together within her wombe: therfore she said, if it be so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to aske the Lorde. (And the children stroue together within her womb: therefore she said, if it be so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to ask the Lord.)
GnvaBut the children stroue together within her: therefore shee sayde, Seeing it is so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to aske the Lord. (But the children stroue together within her: therefore she said, Seeing it is so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to ask the Lord. )
CvdlAnd the children stroue totogether in her wombe. Then sayde she: Yf it shulde go so with me, why am I then wt childe? And she wente for to axe the LORDE. (And the children stroue totogether in her womb. Then said she: If it should go so with me, why am I then with childe? And she went for to ask the LORD.)
WyclBut the litle children weren hurtlid togidre in hir wombe; and sche seide, If it was so to comynge to me, what nede was it to conseyue? And sche yede and axide counsel of the Lord, (But the little children were hurtlid together in her womb; and she said, If it was so to coming to me, what need was it to conseyue? And she went and asked council/counsel of the Lord,)
LuthUnd die Kinder stießen sich miteinander in ihrem Leibe. Da sprach sie: Da mir‘s also sollte gehen, warum bin ich schwanger worden? Und sie ging hin, den HErr’s zu fragen. (And the children stießen itself/yourself/themselves miteinander in their Leibe. So spoke sie: So mir‘s also sollte go, warum am I schwanger worden? And they/she/them went there, the LORD’s to fragen.)
ClVgSed collidebantur in utero ejus parvuli; quæ ait: Si sic mihi futurum erat, quid necesse fuit concipere? perrexitque ut consuleret Dominum. (But collidebantur in utero his parvuli; which he_said: When/But_if so to_me futurum was, quid necesse fuit concipere? perrexitque as consuleret Dominum. )
25:22 When the pregnancy was difficult, Rebekah went to ask theLord about it, probably by visiting a prophet—perhaps Abraham (20:7; see study note on 25:7-8).
Alternate translation: “And the two babies inside her kept pushing against each other,” or “After a while the twins wrestled with each other inside her,”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
