Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan-Aram.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
In Context
8Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaan people-group.
Cross References
Genesis 27:43So now, my son, listen carefully to what I am telling you. Escape quickly and go and stay with my brother Laban, in Haran town.
Leviticus 19:3‘Each of you must respect your father and your mother. And you must ◄honor/treat respectfully► the Sabbath days. I am Yahweh, your God, and that is what I am commanding you to do.
Proverbs 30:17Those who [SYN] make fun of their fathers or refuse to obey their mothers (OR, despise their aged mothers) should die and have their eyes pecked out by crows, and the rest of their corpses should be fed to the vultures.
Ephesians 6:3If you do that, you will prosper, and you will live a long time.
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 →