A28 Isaac Sends Jacob To Laban Poem by Simple Simon

To Isaac, Rebecca said.
'I'm sick and tired
Of Esau's foreign wives,
Who're taking our lives.'

'If Jacob also brings
Similar Hittite girls,
From a family not so high,
Then, I may as well die.'

Isaac called Jacob and said,
'Better don't go and wed
A girl from Canaanite family
If you need a life homely.'

'At Mesopotamia pick up girls,
From the house of your uncles,
Or your grandfather, Bethuel.
Your life will then be peaceful.'

'May God bless you with a good wife,
To share the good and bad in your life.
You'll be a leader of many nations,
And they will be headed by your children.'

'May you take possession,
Of this land, in succession,
The one in which you've lived,
One given to Abraham by God.'

Jacob went to his Uncle Laban,
Son of Bethuel, the Aramean.
And Rebecca's brother,
To find out his partner.