Isaac, Abraham’s son, is specially associated with Beer-sheba, although he settled for periods in other places, including Gerar. Rebecca, his wife, came from the neighbourhood of Haran, from the city of Nahor. When the time came for Isaac to marry, Abraham sent a trusted servant to choose a wife for him among those relatives, rather than let him marry a Canaanite woman. In the next generation Esau, elder son of Isaac and Rebecca, married two Canaanite women, “daughters of Heth”,