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Genesis 28:8 KJV
Genesis · chapter 28 · verse 8
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;Genesis 28:8 · King James Version
Genesis 28:8 in context
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;
9Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- daughtersbatha daughterH1323 →
- pleasedʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- seeingrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- CanaanKᵉnaʻanKenaan, a son a HamH3667 →
- IsaacYitschâqJitschak , son of AbrahamH3327 →
- 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