Genesis 28:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton, emphasizing (verses: Genesis 28:6-8) the effort of Esau to note what would please his parents.

Canaan. Compare Genesis 24:3, and remember who these Canaanites were. See note on Genesis 12:6.

Genesis 28:6

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;