Genesis 27:43

Now, my son, listen to me: run away to my brother Laban at Haran

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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

In Context

42When the words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother, Esau, is going to kill you.

44and stay with him for a time until your brother is no longer angry

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Cross References

Genesis 12:4So Abram set out, as the Lord had commanded him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Genesis 25:20Isaac was forty years old, when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:13But his mother said to him, “Let the curse be on me, my son; only obey me and go, bring the goats to me.”

Genesis 28:10Then Jacob set out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 27:42-46

Jacob's Life Threatened by Esau. ( b. c. 1760.) 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. 42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee… Read the whole commentary →

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