Genesis 28:8
having evidence also that his father did not look with favor upon the daughters of Canaan,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
In Context
7and that Jacob, obeying his parents, had gone into Syria,
Cross References
Genesis 24:3so that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Genesis 26:35And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebekah.
1 Samuel 8:6And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, for they had said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:7-10
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth,… Read the whole commentary →