Genesis 28:8

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

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 Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan Aram to get a wife there, and while blessing him commanded, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman,"

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

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

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

10 Jacob left Beersheba and went to Haran.