Genesis 28:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learnt that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria

Cross References

Genesis 25:20

and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria. Almost twenty years later,

Genesis 27:33

Isaac started trembling and said, “Then who brought me some wild meat just before you came in? I ate it and gave him a blessing that cannot be taken back.”

Genesis 28:1

Isaac called in Jacob, then gave him a blessing, and said: Don't marry any of those Canaanite women.

Genesis 28:7

and that he had obeyed his father and mother.