ContradictionsReading order 226Bible context 1 min read
Who was Bashemath's father?
Esau's wife Bashemath receives different fathers in the two accounts, and Elon's daughter receives a different name.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Esau's wife Bashemath is assigned Elon versus Ishmael as father, alongside a changed name for Elon's daughter.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Bashemath is Esau's wife and Elon's daughter
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:
Genesis 26:34
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Bashemath is Ishmael's daughter while Adah is Elon's daughter
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
Genesis 36:2-3
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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