Genesis 27:45-46

The Voice

⁴⁵Wait until his anger against you subsides and he forgets what you’ve done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back. I don’t want to lose both of you—one to death and one to punishing exile—in one day!

Rebekah comes up with a plan to send Jacob away. But it must look like Isaac’s idea.

⁴⁶Rebekah then went to Isaac complaining about Esau’s Hittite wives.

Rebekah (to Isaac): These Hittite women Esau is married to are making my life miserable. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of these, a woman from here in this land, what good can come of that? Why should I even go on living?

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