He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.”

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.”

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and had marital relations with her.

“The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”