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45 When your brother’s anger toward you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, then [a]I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in a single day?”

46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:45 Rebekah never saw her son Jacob again. He was well over forty and probably fifty-seven years old when he fled from Esau to Haran, and he stayed there at least twenty years.

45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him,(A) I’ll send word for you to come back from there.(B) Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite(C) women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land,(D) from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”(E)

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