Genesis 28:8

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Esau realized that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing to Isaac his father.

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  • Gen 24:3 : 3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
  • Gen 28:1 : 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, saying, 'Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But their request for a king displeased Samuel, and he prayed to the LORD.

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  • Gen 28:5-7
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    5 Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

    6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

    7 Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.

  • 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, as an additional wife to his existing wives.

  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, saying, 'Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

    2 Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 36:1-2
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    1 These are the descendants of Esau, who is Edom.

    2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite.

  • 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, along with his livestock, all his animals, and all the possessions he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he moved to a land away from his brother Jacob.

  • 28 Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Gen 26:34-35
    2 verses
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    34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

    35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • 34 Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

  • 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, 'I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these women from the land, what good is my life to me?'

  • 41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

  • Gen 27:5-6
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    5 Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

    6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

  • 30 As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

  • 22 So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'

  • 5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, 'Who are these with you?' Jacob replied, 'They are the children whom God has graciously given to your servant.'

  • 38 Esau said to his father, 'Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!' Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

  • 15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.