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Esau Marries a Canaanite Woman

Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram[a] to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob,[b] “Don’t marry a Canaanite woman.” After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother’s instructions to set out for Paddan-aram,[c] Esau realized[d] that Canaan women didn’t please his father Isaac, so he went to Abraham’s son Ishmael and married Ishmael’s daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:6 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
  2. Genesis 28:6 Lit. him
  3. Genesis 28:7 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
  4. Genesis 28:8 Lit. saw