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45 Stay there[a] until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there.[b] Why should I lose both of you in one day?”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:45 tn The words “stay there” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  2. Genesis 27:45 tn Heb “and I will send and I will take you from there.” The verb “send” has no object in the Hebrew text; one must be supplied in the translation. Either “someone” or “a message” could be supplied, but since in those times a message would require a messenger, “someone” has been used.
  3. Genesis 27:45 tn If Jacob stayed, he would be killed and Esau would be forced to run away.