I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Kena`anim, among whom I live.
Rivka said to Yitzchak, *I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Chet. If Ya`akov takes a wife of the daughters of Chet, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?*
Now Esav saw that Yitzchak had blessed Ya`akov and sent him away to Paddan-Aram 1, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, *You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kena`an,*
All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra'el, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don't be diminished.
Now to the one half-tribe of Menasheh Moshe had given [inheritance] in Bashan; but to the other half gave Yehoshua among their brothers beyond the Yarden westward; moreover when Yehoshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,