38. Esau continued to plead with his father: “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” He began to cry.
39. Then Isaac said to him,“No dew from heaven for you,No fertile fields for you.
40. You will live by your sword,But be your brother's slave.Yet when you rebel,You will break away from his control.”
41. Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, “The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob.”
42. But when Rebecca heard about Esau's plan, she sent for Jacob and said, “Listen, your brother Esau is planning to get even with you and kill you.
43. Now, my son, do what I say. Go at once to my brother Laban in Haran,
44. and stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger cools down
45. and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send someone to bring you back. Why should I lose both my sons on the same day?”
46. Rebecca said to Isaac, “I am sick and tired of Esau's foreign wives. If Jacob also marries one of these Hittite women, I might as well die.”