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Genesis 28:9
“Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.”
Verse in context — Genesis 28
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and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
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Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.
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Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
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Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
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He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
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