Genesis 28:8

8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;

Genesis 28:8 in Other Translations

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

8 So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

8 It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.

8 When Esau realized how deeply his father Isaac disliked the Canaanite women,

8 And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father.

8 Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of Canaanite women.

8 Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

8 Then Esau realized how much his father Isaac disliked the women of Canaan.

Genesis 28:8 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 28:8

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" ^F9, offensive to him, and disapproved of by him, because of their ill manners: Rebekah is not mentioned, whose displeasure he cared not for.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (ynyeb twer) "malae in oculis", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Schmidt.

Genesis 28:8 In-Context

6 Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.

8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;

9 so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 10:15-19; Genesis 24:3
• 2. S Genesis 26:35