Genesis 28:8
Esau, considering that the daughters of Kenaan were evil in the eyes of Izhak his father,
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
In Context
7and that Jakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan Aram,
Cross References
Genesis 24:3And I will adjure thee by the Word of the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kenaanaee among whom I dwell.
Genesis 26:35And they were rebels and irritators against the word of Izhak and Revekah.
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 →