Genesis 28
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Genesis 28:6-9

6Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.”

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

8Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

9so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.

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