Genesis 28:8
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New International Version (©1984)
Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;

New Living Translation (©2007)
It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of Canaanite women.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

American King James Version
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

American Standard Version
And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the sight of Isaac his father.

English Revised Version
and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Webster's Bible Translation
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

World English Bible
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.

Young's Literal Translation
and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father. Who he perceived was displeased with the daughters of Canaan, or that they were "evil in his eyes" (i), offensive to him, and disapproved of by him, because of their ill manners: Rebekah is not mentioned, whose displeasure he cared not for.

(i) "malae in oculis", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Schmidt.

Geneva Study Bible

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

King James Translators' Notes

pleased...: Heb. were evil in the eyes, etc

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:6-9 Good examples impress even the profane and malicious. But Esau thought, by pleasing his parents in one thing, to atone for other wrong doings. Carnal hearts are apt to think themselves as good as they should be, because in some one matter they are not so bad as they have been.


Genesis 24:3 I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."
Genesis 28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.

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

the daughters. 1 24:3 26:34,35

pleased not. Heb. were evil in the eyes. 1Sa 8:6

Genesis Chapter 28 Verse 8

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