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40 You will live by your sword
    and will serve your brother.
When you become restless,
    you will break his yoke
    from your neck.”

Jacob Escapes From Esau

41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

42 These words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Your brother Esau consoles himself regarding you by planning to kill you.

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