Genesis 28:8
Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaan people-group.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
In Context
7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan-Aram.
Cross References
Genesis 24:3Knowing that Yahweh God who created the heavens and the earth is listening, promise that you will not get a wife for my son, Isaac, from the women here in Canaan.
Genesis 26:35Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
1 Samuel 8:6Samuel was very unhappy with them for requesting that, so he prayed to Yahweh about it.
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 →