Genesis 28:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקְרָ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֖ב וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹת֑וֹ וַיְצַוֵּ֙הוּ֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔וֹ לֹֽא־תִקַּ֥ח אִשָּׁ֖ה מִבְּנ֥וֹת כְּנָֽעַן

Transliteration

wə-yiqrāʾ yiṣḥāq ʾel-yaʿăqōb wə-yəbārek ʾōtô wə-yəṣawwēhû wə-yōʾmer to-him not-tiqqaḥ ʾiššâ from-bənôt kənāʿan

Grammar Details

• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he called
• *yiṣḥāq*: proper noun, masculine singular - Isaac
• *ʾel-yaʿăqōb*: preposition + proper noun, masculine singular - to Jacob
• *wə-yəbārek*: waw consecutive + piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he blessed
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine singular suffix - him
• *wə-yəṣawwēhû*: waw consecutive + piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and he commanded him
• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *tiqqaḥ*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall take
• *ʾiššâ*: noun, feminine singular - woman/wife
• *bənôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - daughters of
• *kənāʿan*: proper noun - Canaan

Word Meanings

• *yiqrāʾ*: call/summon/invite
• *yəbārek*: bless/praise/salute
• *yəṣawwēhû*: command/order/instruct him
• *tiqqaḥ*: take/marry/receive
• *ʾiššâ*: woman/wife

Referenced Verses

• Gen 24:3 : 3 And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:
• Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebecca spake to Isahac: I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the lande, what good shall my lyfe do me?
• Gen 28:3-4 : 3 And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people: 4 And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.
• Gen 34:9 : 9 And make maryages with vs, and geue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.
• Gen 34:16 : 16 Then wyll we geue our daughters vnto you, and take your daughters to vs, and will dwell with you, and be one people.
• Gen 48:15 : 15 And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day,
• Gen 49:28 : 28 All these are the twelue tribes of Israel: and this their father spake vnto them, and blessed them, euery one of them blessed he with a seueral blessing.
• Exod 34:15-16 : 15 Lest if thou make any agreement with the inhabitours of the lande, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice vnto their gods: they call thee, and thou eate of theyr sacrifice. 16 And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters go a whoryng after their gods, and make thy sonnes go a whoryng after their gods also.
• Deut 33:1 : 1 This is the blessyng wherwith Moyses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death, and sayde:
• Josh 22:7 : 7 Unto the one halfe of the tribe of Manasses Moyses gaue possession in Basan: & vnto the other halfe thereof gaue Iosuah, among their brethren on this syde Iordane westwarde. And Iosuah sent them away also vnto their tentes, and blessed them,
• 2 Cor 6:14-16 : 14 And beare not ye a straunge yoke with the vnbeleuers. For what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? Or what communion hath lyght with darkenesse? 15 Or what concorde hath Christe with belyall? Eyther what part hath he that beleueth, with an infidell? 16 Or howe agreeth the temple of God with images? For ye are the temple of the lyuing God, as saide God, I wyll dwell in them, & walke in them & wyll be their God, & they shalbe my people.
• Gen 24:37 : 37 And my maister made me sweare, saying: thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne amongest the daughters of the Chanaanites, in whose lande I dwell:
• Gen 26:34-35 : 34 Esau was fourtie yere olde, & he toke a wyfe called Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hethite also. 35 Which were disobedient vnto Isahac and Rebecca.
• Gen 27:4 : 4 And make me well tastyng meates, such as I loue, and bryng it to me, that I may eate, that my soule may blesse thee before that I dye.
• Gen 27:27-33 : 27 And he went vnto him, & kyssed him, and he smelled the sauour of his rayment, and blessed hym, & saide: See, the smell of my sonne, is as the smell of a fielde which the Lorde hath blessed. 28 God geue thee of the deawe of heauen, and of the fatnesse of the earth, and plentie of corne and wine. 29 People be thy seruauntes, and nations bowe to thee: be lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children stowpe with reuerence vnto thee: cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. 30 Assoone as Isahac had made an ende of blessyng Iacob, & Iacob was scarse gone out from the presence of Isahac his father, then came Esau his brother from his huntyng. 31 And he also had made a pleasaunt meate, and brought it vnto his father, and saide vnto his father: let my father aryse, and eate of his sonnes venison, that thy soule may blesse me. 32 Then his father Isahac sayde vnto hym: who art thou? He aunswered: I am thy sonne, thy first borne Esau. 33 And Isahac was greatly astonied out of measure, and sayde: which is he and where is he then that hath hunted venison and brought it me, and I haue eaten of al before thou camest? and haue blessed hym, yea & he shalbe blessed.
• Gen 6:2 : 2 And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.