Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter ^(A)Zipporah.

³⁴ When Esau was forty years old, he took ^(A)Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, ³⁵ and ^(B)they made life bitter^[a] for Isaac and Rebekah.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, ^(A)“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.^{[a] (B)}If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

^37 (A)My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

¹⁶ Have I then become your enemy by ^(A)telling you the truth?^[a]

¹⁴ They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for ^(A)that would be a disgrace to us. ¹⁵ Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.

Esau Marries an Ishmaelite

⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” ⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram. ⁸ So when Esau saw ^(A)that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father, ⁹ Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, ^(B)Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of ^(C)Nebaioth.

³ that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that ^(A)you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

^5 (A)For not even ^(B)his brothers believed in him.