Esau Seeks a Suitable Wife
Genesis 28:6-9
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
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Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
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