Devine Scripture

Genesis 28:8

Genesis chapter 28 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:

v.8This passage

v.9and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 8:6

    But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto Jehovah.

  • Genesis 24:3

    and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

  • Genesis 26:34

    And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

  • Genesis 28:1

    And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.