This is about Esau and how took wives from the Canaanite women, then married a cousin, and moved away from Jacob so they could both have enough land to support them.
They say you can choose your friends but not your relatives, and this is a classic example of two brothers who did not get along. Esau was his father's favourite and Jacob the favourite of his mother. Jacob, who seems to have been a real schemer, took Esau's birthright in exchange for a bowl of stew and ended up having to flee for his life to Laban.
You would think being family, they would trust one another, respect one another, but not so in this case. Jacob tricked Esau and Esau's descendants became some of the fiercest enemies of Israel and even today, thousands of years later, Esau's descendants surround Israel and are causing trouble and friction to say the least.
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