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Heart of David Study Bible GENESIS

Yitshak answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers
have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What
then will I do for you, my son?”
Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even
me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Yitshak his father answered him,

“Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling,
and of the dew of the sky from above.
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Esau hated Ya`aqob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him.
Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill
my brother Ya`aqob.”
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Ribkah. She sent and called
Ya`aqob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts
himself about you by planning to kill you. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice.

Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. Stay with him a few days, until your
brother’s fury turns away; until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he
forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why
should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
Ribkah said to Yitshak, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth.
If Ya`aqob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the
land, what good will my life do me?”
Yitshak called Ya`aqob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a
wife of the daughters of Kayinan. Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel
your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your
mother’s brother. May El Shaddai (the Mighty One Who Gives Blessings of the
Breasts) bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company
of peoples, and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you,
that you may inherit the land where you travel, which Elohim gave to Abraham.”
Yitshak sent Ya`aqob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel
the Syrian, Ribkah’s brother, Ya`aqob’s and Esau’s mother.
Now Esau saw that Yitshak had blessed Ya`aqob and sent him away to Paddan
Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a
command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kayinan,” and that
Ya`aqob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. Esau saw that
the daughters of Kayinan didn’t please Yitshak, his father. Esau went to Yishmael, and
took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Yishmael, Abraham’s son,
the sister of Nebayoth, to be his wife.

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