Genesis 27:40-42
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
40 By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother;
but when you break loose,[a]
you shall break his yoke from your neck.’
Jacob Escapes Esau’s Fury
41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’ 42 But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, ‘Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.
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- Genesis 27:40 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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