Genesis 28:7-9

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⁷ and that Jacob had ·obeyed [listened to] his father and mother and had gone to ·northwestern Mesopotamia [^LPaddan-aram]. ⁸ So Esau saw that ·his father Isaac did not want his sons to marry Canaanite women [^Cthe daughters of Canaan were bad/evil in the eyes of his father Isaac]. ⁹ Now Esau already had wives, but he went to Ishmael son of Abraham, and he married Mahalath, Ishmael’s daughter. Mahalath was the sister of Nebaioth.