The Legends of the Jews, Volume I

Mahalath

First appears: Jacob Leaves His Father's House

The night before Esau’s wedding to Mahalath, her father Ishmael died. Her brother Nebaioth then gave her in marriage in their father’s place, “and Nebaioth, the son of Ishmael, stepped into his father's place, and gave away his sister.” Mahalath was also a grandchild of Abraham.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Esau married Mahalath, and Nebaioth gave his sister in marriage in Ishmael's place.(Jacob Leaves His Father's House)
    • With: Esau Ishmael Nebaioth
    • “and Nebaioth, the son of Ishmael, stepped into his father's place, and gave away his sister.”

Jacob Leaves His Father's House

  • married with Esau “This shows that Esau's marriage with Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael and grandchild of Abraham, was not concluded out of regard for his parents, who were opposed to his two other wives, daughters of the Canaanites.”
  • parent: Ishmael “This shows that Esau's marriage with Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael and grandchild of Abraham, was not concluded out of regard for his parents, who were opposed to his two other wives, daughters of the Canaanites.”
  • elder kin: Abraham “This shows that Esau's marriage with Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael and grandchild of Abraham, was not concluded out of regard for his parents, who were opposed to his two other wives, daughters of the Canaanites.”
  • siblings with Nebaioth “The night before his wedding with Mahalath Ishmael died, and Nebaioth, the son of Ishmael, stepped into his father's place, and gave away his sister.”

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