Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Kiddushin 58:27

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

The usual answer given is that Rashi wanted to explain why Isaac had not married earlier. Our sages say that if someone is not married by the time he is twenty years old G–d makes such a person's bones swell up (Kidushin 29). Rashi therefore gives an accounting of all these years to show that Isaac had not been able to marry a suitable wife sooner.
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