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Genesis 28:9

Genesis 28:9

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Then went Esau unto Ishmael,.... Not to Ishmael in person, for he was now dead, , and had been dead as is reckoned about fourteen years before this, but to the house of Ishmael:and took unto the wives which he had; the daughters of Heth, and who seem by this to be both alive at this time:Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son; the same with Bashemath, ; as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, this person having two names, and is further described,the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife; who was the eldest son of Ishmael, and, his father being dead, was the principal in the family; and this woman Esau took to wife was his sister by his mother's side, as the above Targum expresses, as well as by his father's; whereas he might have other sisters only by his father's side, he having had more wives than one.

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