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Summary

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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I am

Numbers 11:15
But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble."
1 Kings 19:4
while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."
Job 3:20
"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
Job 7:16
I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
Job 14:13
"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
Jonah 4:3
So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!"

Because

Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.
Genesis 34:1
Now Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

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Genesis 24:3
so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

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Genesis 34:9
Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

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