Esau Seeks a Suitable Wife
Genesis 28:6-9
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And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:
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And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:
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Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:
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He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.
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