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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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  1. Genesis 28:6

    When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, 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;

  2. Genesis 28:7

    And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

  3. Genesis 28:9

    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.

  4. Genesis 28:10

    And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.

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