Genesis 27:41-45

Isaac Blesses Jacob

41 Now Esau b hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, c "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; d then I will kill my brother Jacob." 42 But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran 44 and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away - 45 until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 37:4
    But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 50:3 - 4
    Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
    Genesis 50:10
    When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
  3. Cross References
    Amos 1:11
    Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
    Obadiah 1:10
    Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
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