Chapter 27
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And Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father will draw near, and I will kill my brother Jacob."
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The words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you."
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Now, my son, listen to my voice. Arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.
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Dwell with him a few days, until your brother’s anger returns.
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until your brother's anger turns away from you and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send and take you from there. Why should I be bereaved of both of you in one day?
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Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these from the daughters of the land, why should I live?"
Chapter 28
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Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, commanded him, and said to him, "Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan."
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Rise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, father of your mother, and take a wife for yourself from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
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May El Shaddai bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and may you become an assembly of peoples.
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May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, to inherit the land of your sojourning for you, which God gave to Abraham.
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And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah mother of Jacob and Esau.
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And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram to take a wife for himself from there, and that he had blessed him and commanded him, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan."
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Jacob listened to his father and his mother and went to Paddan-aram.
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And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father.
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Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister of Nebaioth, as a wife in addition to his other wives.