Genesis 28:7
and that Jakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan Aram,
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
In Context
8Esau, considering that the daughters of Kenaan were evil in the eyes of Izhak his father,
Cross References
Genesis 27:43And now, my son, receive from me, and arise and go to Laban my brother at Haran,
Leviticus 19:3A man shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep the day of My Sabbath: I am the Lord your God.
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 →