Genesis 28:8

8 Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of Canaanite women.

Genesis 28:8 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 28:8

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father.
] Who he perceived was displeased with the daughters of Canaan, or that they were "evil in [his] eyes" ^F9, offensive to him, and disapproved of by him, because of their ill manners: Rebekah is not mentioned, whose displeasure he cared not for.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (ynyeb twer) "malae in oculis", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Schmidt.

Genesis 28:8 In-Context

6 Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Paddan Aram to get a wife from there. He learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had commanded him not to marry any of the Canaanite women.

7 He also learned that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had left for Paddan Aram.

8 Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of Canaanite women.

9 So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth, in addition to the wives he had.

10 Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran.