A moment in scripture
Genesis 28:9
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Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;
- Genesis 28:8
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
- Genesis 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.
- Genesis 28:11
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.