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Genesis 28:6 KJV
Genesis · chapter 28 · verse 6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, 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;Genesis 28:6 · King James Version
Genesis 28:6 in context
4And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, 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;
7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
8And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- PadanaramPaddânPaddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of SyriaH6307 →
- blessedbârakto kneelH1288 →
- chargetsâvâhto constitute, enjoinH6680 →
- IsaacYitschâqJitschak , son of AbrahamH3327 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- EsauʻÊsâvEsav, a son of Isaac, including his posterityH6215 →
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This passage concerning Esau comes in in the midst of Jacob's story, either, 1. To show the influence of a good example. Esau, though the greater man, now begins to think Jacob the better man, and disdains not to take him for his pattern in this particular instance of marrying with a daughter of Abraham.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-9