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Adult Esau in rust and ochre, reddish-brown hair and beard, stands beside his adult new wife Mahalath and her household near desert tents. Dignified ordinary marriage household context, no invented ceremony; Jacob is absent.
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Genesis 28:6-9

Esau and Mahalath

The Dream at Bethel · Genesis 28

Story guide: Seeing that Canaanite wives displease Isaac, Esau also marries Ishmael’s daughter Mahalath.

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6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife for himself from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

7and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Paddan-aram.

8And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father.

9So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, as a wife for himself in addition to his wives.

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