“And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:”
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. The transition to Esau's marriages is abrupt and its implication is immediate: Esau marries Canaanite women. The explicit prohibition of Canaanite intermarriage that Abraham gave his servant in Genesis 24:3 is violated by Esau. Genesis 28:1 will confirm that Isaac explicitly prohibits this. The application: Esau's marriages are the chapter's closing statement about his character: he is indifferent to covenant concern, choosing by physical attraction what he should choose by covenant discernment.
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