創世記28:1-9

28:1 以撒叫了雅各來，給他祝福，並囑咐他說：「你不要娶迦南的女子為妻。
28:2 你起身往巴旦‧亞蘭去，到你外祖彼土利家裡，在你母舅拉班的女兒中娶一女為妻。
28:3 願全能的上帝賜福給你，使你生養眾多，成為多族，
28:4 將應許亞伯拉罕的福賜給你和你的後裔，使你承受你所寄居的地為業，就是上帝賜給亞伯拉罕的地。」
28:5 以撒打發雅各走了，他就往巴旦‧亞蘭去，到亞蘭人彼土利的兒子拉班那裡。拉班是雅各、以掃的母舅。
28:6 以掃見以撒已經給雅各祝福，而且打發他往巴旦‧亞蘭去，在那裡娶妻，並見祝福的時候囑咐他說：「不要娶迦南的女子為妻」，
28:7 又見雅各聽從父母的話往巴旦‧亞蘭去了，
28:8 以掃就曉得他父親以撒看不中迦南的女子，
28:9 便往以實瑪利那裡去，在他二妻之外又娶了瑪哈拉為妻。她是亞伯拉罕兒子以實瑪利的女兒，尼拜約的妹子。

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. ² Go at once to Paddan Aram,^[a] to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. ³ May God Almighty^[b] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. ⁴ May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” ⁵ Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

⁶ Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” ⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. ⁸ Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; ⁹ so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

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    以掃雖然知道自己的父母親不喜歡自己和迦南女子結婚，但是他沒有好好尋求上帝，卻用自己的方法和以實瑪利的女兒結婚。而這一切，都是出於人的無知，以致於一錯再錯！

    由以掃的婚姻，我們知道人不可以無知，要努力認識真理，才會知道上帝是如何賜福，人要如何信靠祂，而不致於做了一些不該做的事。可是做了之後，又害怕會有不良的後果，就一再用其他方式來掩蓋，結果越來越糟！

    求主保守，讓我們不要落入這樣的景況，就要求上帝來啟示，用聖靈來引導我們明白上帝的話，使我們行在上帝的榮耀之中！