3 God Almighty will bless you, make you fertile, and give you many descendants so that you will become a large group of peoples.
4 He will give you and your descendants Abraham’s blessing so that you will own the land in which you are now immigrants, the land God gave to Abraham."
5 So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he traveled to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau’s mother.
6 Esau understood that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to marry a woman from there. He recognized that, when Isaac blessed Jacob, he had ordered him, "Don’t marry a Canaanite woman,"
7 and that Jacob had listened to his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
8 Esau realized that his father Isaac considered Canaanite women unacceptable.
9 So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth, in addition to his other wives.