issues. With a child like Esau, a parent would always have to go through the candy-free checkout lane at the grocery store. Then Esau married not one but two local Hittite women, perhaps at the same time, which must have made for an awkward wedding ceremony (26:34). Esau’s Hittite wives made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah, either because as Hittites they did not worship the God of Abraham and Isaac, or simply because they themselves were intolerable. When Esau was swindled out of Isaac’s blessing