⁶ Esau ·learned [^Lsaw] that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to ·northwestern Mesopotamia [^LPaddan-aram] to find a wife there. He also ·learned [^Lsaw] that Isaac had commanded Jacob not to marry a ·Canaanite woman [^Ldaughter of Canaan] ⁷ and that Jacob had ·obeyed [listened to] his father and mother and had gone to ·northwestern Mesopotamia [^LPaddan-aram]. ⁸ So Esau saw that ·his father Isaac did not want his sons to marry Canaanite women [^Cthe daughters of Canaan were bad/evil in the eyes of his father Isaac]. ⁹ Now Esau already had wives, but he went to Ishmael son of Abraham, and he married Mahalath, Ishmael’s daughter. Mahalath was the sister of Nebaioth.