Genesis 28:7
He also discovered that Jacob had done what his father and mother told him and had left for Paddan-aram.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
In Context
8This made Esau realize how much his father disliked Canaanite women.
Cross References
Genesis 27:43So, my son, listen carefully to what I tell you. Leave immediately and go to my brother Laban in Haran.
Leviticus 19:3Show respect for your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Proverbs 30:17People who ridicule their fathers and despise obedience to the mother will have their eyes pecked out by wild ravens and eaten by young vultures.
Ephesians 6:3“that things may go well for you and you may live a long life on the earth.”
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 →