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# General Information:
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Most of Genesis 26 was about Isaac. These verses are about his older son Esau.
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# forty
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"40" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# he took a wife
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"he married." You can state explicitly that he married two women. AT: "he took two wives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# Judith ... Basemath
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These are the names of Esau's wives. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# Beeri ... Elon
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These are names of men. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# the Hittite
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"the descendant of Heth" or "a descendant of Heth." The Hittite people were the descendants of Heth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# They brought sorrow to Isaac and Rebekah
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Here "they" refers to Judith and Basemath. To make someone sorrowful or miserable is spoken of as if "sorrow" were an object that a person could bring to another person. AT: "They made Isaac and Rebekah sorrowful" or "Isaac and Rebekah were miserable because of them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/esau]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/biblicaltimeyear]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/hittite]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/isaac]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rebekah]]
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