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Jacob Flees to Laban 41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”42When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.43Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.44Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.45When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?” 46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.” Chapter 28 1So Isaac called for Jacob and blessedOr greeted him and commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.2Go at once to Paddan Aram,That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.3May God AlmightyHebrew El-Shaddai bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.4May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land God gave to Abraham.”5Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.6Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.8Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;9so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
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