Genesis 27:41-28:5

New King James Version

Jacob Escapes from Esau

⁴¹So Esau ^(A)hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, ^(B)“The days of mourning for my father ^[a]are at hand; ^(C)then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

⁴²And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Surely your brother Esau ^(D)comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you. ⁴³Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban ^(E)in Haran. ⁴⁴And stay with him a ^(F)few days, until your brother’s fury turns away, ⁴⁵until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved also of you both in one day?”

⁴⁶And Rebekah said to Isaac, ^(G)“I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; ^(H)if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Jacob Sent to His Uncle Laban

28 Then Isaac called Jacob and ^(I)blessed him, and ^[b]charged him, and said to him: ^(J)“You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. ²^(K)Arise, go to ^(L)Padan Aram, to the house of ^(M)Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of ^(N)Laban your mother’s brother.

³“May ^(O)God Almighty bless you,
And make you ^(P)fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
⁴And give you ^(Q)the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
^(R)In^[c] which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”