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This negative attitude to Esau is based on his not divorcing his two Hittite wives Adah and Judith when he married Mahalath, even though he knew that they were displeasing to his parents.
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"Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael: Midrash and Aggadah."
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After Esau saw that his father Isaac had ordered Jacob not to take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, he abandoned his evil ways and married Mahalath, the daughter of his uncle Ishmael.
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However, according to another view, Esau did not mend his ways and Mahalath was as evil as his first two wives (Midrash Aggadah, ed. Buber, Gen. 28: 9).
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Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael: Midrash and Aggadah
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Accordingly, his marriage to Mahalath was ke-mahalah (as an affliction) and only increased the pain his parents had suffered upon his first marriages (Gen. Rabbah 67: 8, 13).
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Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
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Family Ties: Parents, Isaac and Rebekah; brother, Jacob; wives: Judith, Basemath, and Mahalath
Saints & Scoundrels of the Bible Linda Chaffee Taylor 2008
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Family Ties: Parents, Isaac and Rebekah; brother, Jacob; wives: Judith, Basemath, and Mahalath
Saints & Scoundrels of the Bible Linda Chaffee Taylor 2008
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Family Ties: Parents, Isaac and Rebekah; brother, Jacob; wives: Judith, Basemath, and Mahalath
Saints & Scoundrels of the Bible Linda Chaffee Taylor 2008
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