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Esau took Mahalath from the house of Ishmael to be his wife, after seeing that his Canaanite wives (Basemath and Judith) displeased his father, Isaac (Genesis 28:6–9). Esau sought this union with a non-Canaanite, in an effort to reconcile his relationship with his parents, [1] [2] namely with his father Isaac whose blessing he sought (Genesis ...
Mahalath (Genesis 28:9) = Bashemath (No.2) (Genesis 36:2,3), Esau's cousin and third wife, daughter of Ishmael. Genesis 26:34–35 describes Esau's marriage at the age of forty to two Canaanite women: Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Esau עֵשָׂו (Edom אֱדֹֽום) Married three wives [1]. Reuel [2] רְעוּאֵֽל By Basemath בָּשְׂמַ֥ת (daughter of Elon the Hittite, wife of Ishmael?) [3] Also called Mahalath (the sister of Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael) Married just after Jacob's flight to Haran
Esau is then said to have taken as his third wife a daughter of his uncle Ishmael, Mahalath. In Genesis 36:2,3, on the other hand, Esau's three wives are differently named; his family is mentioned as composed of two Canaanite wives, Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah, and a third: Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter.
Mahalath (Genesis 28:9) = Bashemath [clarification needed] (Genesis 36:2,3), Esau's cousin and third wife, daughter of Ishmael. The name Aholibamah appears again later among the listed clans of Edom , suggesting that a descendant of Esau had the same (female) name and became a chief.
Esau [a] is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis [3] and by the prophets Obadiah [4] and Malachi. [5] The story of Esau and Jacob reflects the historical relationship between Israel and Edom, aiming to explain why Israel, despite being a younger kingdom, dominated Edom. [6]
The Hebrew Bible states that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew. (Esau referred to the dish as "that red, red stuff", giving rise to his nickname, Hebrew: אדום ('Edom, meaning "Red")). Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as ...
In a Kabbalistic treatise by Nathan Nata Spira (d. in 1663), it is explained that Mahalath was daughter to Ishmael and his wife, who was herself daughter of Egyptian sorcerer Kasdiel. Mother and daughter were exiled to the desert, where the demon Igrathiel mated with Mahalat and engendered Agrat or Igrat. [4] Mahalat later became Esau's wife.