Jacob was sent away to find a wife among his mother’s people. Esau took a wife in defiance against his parents.
Genesis 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Book of Judith (Is not the same person)
The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors.
The purpose of the book is to inspire courage and patriotism through its heroine, a widow named Judith.
It is still in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. They were removed from the Protestant Bible because of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in the US. Reasons for its exclusion include the lateness of its composition, possible Greek origin, open support of the Hasmonean dynasty (to which the early rabbinate was opposed), and perhaps the brash and seductive character of Judith herself.
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