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45 When your brother’s anger is diverted from you, he will forget [the wrong] that you have done him. Then [a]I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?

46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth [these wives of Esau]! If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth such as these Hittite girls around here, what good will my life be to me?

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:45 But Rebekah never saw her son Jacob again. He was well over 40 and probably 57 years old when he fled from Esau to Haran, and he stayed there at least 20 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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