Genesis 25:20

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Genesis 25:20 tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”
2. Genesis 25:20 sn Some valuable information is provided here. We learn here that Isaac married thirty-five years before Abraham died, that Rebekah was barren for 20 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.