Genesis 28:8
And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Canaan were evil before his father Isaac,
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
In Context
7and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
Cross References
Genesis 24:3and I will adjure thee by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.
Genesis 26:35And they were provoking to Isaac and Rebekah.
1 Samuel 8:6And the thing was evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they 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 →