Related%20passage for Megillah 33:2

ותניא היה יעקב אבינו בשעה שנתברך מאביו בן ששים ושלש שנה ובו בפרק מת ישמעאל דכתיב (בראשית כח, ו) וירא עשו כי ברך וגו' וילך עשו אל ישמעאל ויקח את מחלת בת ישמעאל אחות נביות ממשמע שנאמר בת ישמעאל איני יודע שהיא אחות נביות מלמד שקידשה ישמעאל ומת והשיאה נביות אחיה

and it has been taught: Jacob our father at the time when he was blessed by his father was sixty-three years old. It was just at that time that Ishmael died, as it is written, "Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob so Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahlat the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nevayot" (28:6, 9). Now once it has been said, "Ishmael's daughter" do I not know that she was the sister of Nevayot? This tells us then that Ishmael betrothed her and then died, and Nevayot her brother gave her in marriage.

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