--- title: "Jacob sent to Laban" description: "Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given..." image: "" book: "Genesis" bookId: "GEN" testament: "old" startChapter: 27 startVerse: 41 endChapter: 28 endVerse: 9 coversChapters: [27,28] aiTitle: "Jacob sent to Laban" aiDescription: "Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given..." hasAiStory: true location: "Paddan-aram" persons: ["Abraham","Bethuel","Esau","God","Isaac","Ishmael","Jacob","Laban","Mahalath","Nebaioth","Rebekah"] hashtags: ["betrayal","covenant","forgiveness","guidance"] genre: "law" readingTime: 2 type: "adaptive" slug: "GEN/jacob-sent-to-laban" canonicalId: "GEN.27.41-28.9" chronologicalOrder: 71 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "GEN/the-deception-for-the-blessing" nextSlug: "GEN/jacobs-ladder" --- [Esau](/persons/esau) held a grudge against [Jacob](/persons/jacob) because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to [Rebekah](/persons/rebekah), she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you. So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother [Laban](/persons/laban) in Haran. Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides— until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?” Then Rebekah said to [Isaac](/persons/isaac), “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?” ### Jacob’s Departure So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded. “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father [Bethuel](/persons/bethuel), and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. May [God](/persons/god) Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples. And may He give the blessing of [Abraham](/persons/abraham) to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau. ### Esau Marries Mahalath Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram. And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women, Esau went to [Ishmael](/persons/ishmael) and married [Mahalath](/persons/mahalath), the sister of [Nebaioth](/persons/nebaioth) and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.

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