King James Version
Genesis 28:7 in the King James Version says “And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;”
Genesis 28:7 · KJV
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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;
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; pleased: Heb. were evil in the eyes, etc
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. Mahalath: or, Bashemath
KJV Study — Public Domain
“obeyed”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“and his mother”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
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