Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his other wives.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,
10And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.
Cross References
Genesis 26:34And Esau was forty years old; and he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beoch the + 26:34 Alex. Hivite.Chettite, and Basemath, daughter of Helon the Chettite.
Genesis 36:13And these are the sons of Raguel; Nachoth, Zare, Some, and Moze. These were the sons of Basemath, wife of Esau.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:7-10
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth,… Read the whole commentary →