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Genesis 28:8

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

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KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

WEB World English Bible

Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

ASV American Standard Version

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

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,

Surrounding context — Genesis 28

5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

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

9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

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