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Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah son[a] of Zibeon the Hivite,(A)

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  1. 36.2 Sam Gk Syr: Heb daughter

25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.(A)

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Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.(A)

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46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”(A)

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Esau’s Hittite Wives

34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite,(A) 35 and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.(B)

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25 he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;
    lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”(A)

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