Jacob Flees from Esau

27:41-28:5

41 After that Esau held a grudge against Jacob because their father had blessed him. So Esau thought to himself, “Soon my father will die; then after we bury him and mourn for him, I will kill my brother Jacob.” 42 But Rebekah heard about what her oldest son Esau was planning, so she sent for her youngest son Jacob and told him, “Listen, your brother Esau is planning to take revenge on you and kill you. 43 So then, my son, listen to me: Hurry and escape to the city of Haran to my brother Laban! 44 Live with him for a short time until your brother is no longer angry with you. 45 When he is not angry with you anymore and he forgets what you did to him, I will send word that it is safe for you to come back home from there. I do not want to lose both of you on the same day!”

46 Then Rebekah complained to Isaac, “My life is very miserable because of our Hittite daughters-in-law whom Esau married! If Jacob were to also marry a local Hittite woman like that, I would not want to keep on living!”

28 So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him and told him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman. 2 Instead you must go right away to the region of Paddan Aram, to the home of your mother’s father, Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters. 3 I pray that God, who is all-powerful, will bless you and give you many children and increase the number of your descendants, so that you become the ancestor of many people groups. 4 I also pray that he will bless you and your descendants the same way that he blessed Abraham, so that you will own this land where you have been living as a foreigner, the same land which God gave to him.” 5 Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, so Jacob started traveling to Laban’s house which was in the region of Paddan Aram. Laban was the son of Bethuel the Aramean and also the brother of Rebekah, who was Jacob and Esau’s mother.