◄ Genesis 28:8 ►
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Good News Translation
Esau then understood that his father Isaac did not approve of Canaanite women.

New Revised Standard Version
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac,

Contemporary English Version
Esau already had several wives, but he now realized how much his father hated the Canaanite women.

New American Bible
Esau realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:

the daughters.

Genesis 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:

Genesis 24:3 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 26:34,35 And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place. . . .

pleased not.

1 Samuel 8:6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

Context
Esau Marries Mahalath
…7And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria: 8Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:9He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:3
That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 26:34
And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.

Genesis 26:35
And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

Genesis 27:46
And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:

Genesis 28:7
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