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Genesis 28:6
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4 And give you athe blessin1g of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
bIn which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”  
5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Esau Marries Mahalath

6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
8 Also Esau saw athat the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac.  
9 So Esau went to Ishmael and atook bMahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, cthe sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.  

Jacob’s Vow at Bethel

10 Now Jacob awent out from Beersheba and went toward bHaran.  
11 So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Genesis 28:6.

Genesis 28:6-9

This is carnal thinking to a "T." He had two wives already, Hittite women. (Hamidic—they are of the family of Ham.) Then he decided, "Okay, since Isaac and Rebecca have blessed Jacob for going and getting a wife from our family, I will get another wife, also from our family." So, who does he go to? Rather than go back to Padan Aram where his uncle was living, he goes to Ishmael, the son of a concubine, and gets a daughter from him. A third wife. Just adding problem upon problem. He should have had one wife, but he ended up with three because he was jealous of his brother and his relationship with his father and mother.

Everything that we see about Esau shows that he was a typical man of the flesh. If you would go back to Hebrews 12:14-17 you will find that Paul calls him, "an immoral, and profane person" because that is all that he ever thought about—immoral things and profane things—meaning "far from God" ("Far from the Temple" is the exact definition of "profane" in the Greek). But he did not think about God's purposes because he was entirely caught up in the flesh.

Excerpted from Works of the Flesh

 
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