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40     You will live by your sword,
        and you will serve your brother.
    But when you grow restless to be free,
        you will break his yoke from your neck.

41 Esau hated Jacob with a fury, because his brother now carried the blessing his father meant for him.

Esau (to himself): The days of mourning for my father are approaching. When he has died, I will kill my brother, Jacob.

42 But someone overheard him speaking of this and informed Rebekah. She called for Jacob, her younger son, and told him to flee.

Rebekah (to Jacob): Listen to me. Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

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