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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 28:9/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ״ח:ט׳

אוכאשר שמע עשו שבירך יצחק עוד את אחיו, וצוה שלא יקח אשה מבנות כנען הלך אל דודו ולקח בתו ושמה בשמת גם מחלת כמו יתרו שהוא על דעתי חובב:

1[SO ESAU WENT UNTO ISHMAEL.] When Esau learned that Isaac blessed Jacob a second time and charged him not to take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,¹ he went unto his uncle Ishmael and married his daughter Basemath, who was also called Mahalath.². However, Gen. 36:3 tells us that Esau married Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter. I.E. solves the discrepancy by explaining that the daughter of Ishmael whom Esau married had two names. She, like Jethro, had two names, for I believe that Jethro and Hobab are one and the same person.³

באחות נביות. נכבד היה מכל אחיו או שהי' לישמעאל נשים רבות וזאת היתה אחות נביות:

2THE SISTER OF NEBAIOTH. He was the most important of all his brothers.⁴ It is also possible that Ishmael had many wives and that Mahalath was Nabaioth’s sister from the same mother.⁵