Genesis 28:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ So Ěsaw saw that the daughters of Kena‛an did not please his father Yitsḥaq,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ and Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Also Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Common English Bible

⁸ Esau realized that his father Isaac considered Canaanite women unacceptable.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ having evidence also that his father did not look with favor upon the daughters of Canaan,

Genesis 28:8 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

so that I make you swear by יהוה, the Elohim of the heavens and the Elohim of the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kena‛anites, among whom I dwell,

1 Samuel 8:6

But the word was evil in the eyes of Shemu’ĕl when they said, “Give us a sovereign to rule us.” So Shemu’ĕl prayed to יהוה.

Genesis 28:1

And Yitsḥaq called Ya‛aqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kena‛an.

Genesis 27:46

And Riḇqah said to Yitsḥaq, “I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Ḥĕth. If Ya‛aqoḇ takes a wife from the daughters of Ḥĕth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what is my life to me?”

Genesis 28:7

and that Ya‛aqoḇ had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.