Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed1 Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women," and that Jacob had obeyed2 his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram. So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac, Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, and sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife3 in addition to the wives he had.
[1] Esau still deeply wants to be blessed.
[2] So in some respect, Esau wants to be like Jacob.
[3] Esau does what he thinks will gain the pleasure and blessing of his father.
Take-home: Esau had been denied the blessing of his father, and now tries to find other ways to gain his father's blessing after seeing how Jacob gets blessed.
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