Genesis 28:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father;

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  • Gen 24:3 : 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.
  • Gen 28:1 : 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

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  • Gen 28:5-7
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    5 And Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Padanaram to 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 himself a wife from there; and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

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

  • Gen 28:9
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    9 Then Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahlath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife, in addition to the wives he already had.

  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

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

  • Gen 36:1-2
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    1 Now 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 Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

  • Gen 36:6
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    6 And Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the persons of his house, and his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had obtained in the land of Canaan; and he went into another land away from his brother Jacob.

  • Gen 25:28
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    28 And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Gen 26:34-35
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    34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

    35 Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34 Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • Gen 27:46
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    46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these who are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?

  • Gen 27:41
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    41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.

  • Gen 27:5-6
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    5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it.

    6 And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

  • Gen 27:30
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    30 And it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

  • Gen 27:22
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    22 And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

  • Gen 33:5
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    5 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.

  • Gen 27:38
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    38 And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • Gen 27:15
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    15 And Rebekah took the best garments of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son: