Now when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite. And this was a bitter grief for Isaac and Rebecca.
And Rebecca said to Isaac, “I am sick to death because of these Hittite women. If Jacob too takes a native woman as his wife, how can I go on living?”
So Isaac sent for Jacob and blessed him and said, “You must not take a Canaanite woman as your wife. Go right now to Paddanaram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father; and take as your wife one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become a multitude of peoples. And may he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you are now living, the land that God gave to Abraham.”
Then Isaac sent Jacob off. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebecca, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
And when Esau learned that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing and commanded him not to take a Canaanite woman as his wife and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife there, and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram, Esau realized how greatly the Canaanite women displeased his father saac. So he went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, daughter of Abrahams son Ishmael and sister of Nebayoth, as his wife, in addition to the wives that he already had.