Esau Marries an Ishmaelite
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Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
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Also Esau saw k that the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac.
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So Esau went to Ishmael and l took m Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, n the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.
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Cross References
Genesis 24:3
And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35
And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.
Genesis 27:46
And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?
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Cross References
Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35
And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.
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Cross References
Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite.
Genesis 36:3
And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
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Cross References
Genesis 25:13
And these were the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam.
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