“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?”
Then Rebekah said to Isaac: I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living. Rebekah frames Jacob's departure in terms of marriage concerns — a legitimate concern given Esau's Canaanite wives (Genesis 26:34-35) — rather than in terms of the death threat. She manages the conversation with Isaac in the same way she managed the blessing scheme: through strategic disclosure. The application: the person who obtains their goals through strategic information management will continue using that tool. Rebekah manages Isaac's response to the departure by choosing which truth to tell.
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