Esau Marries an Ishmaelite

Genesis 28

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 m 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, n Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of o Nebaioth.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 24:3
    That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and 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 26:35
    And they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 36:3
    And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 25:13
    These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam.
    Genesis 36:3
    And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
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