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.

Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.