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Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent word and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, "Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

"Now then, my son, ^(C1)obey my voice, and arise, ^(F1)flee to ^(C2)Haran, to my brother ^(C3)Laban!

"Stay with him ^(C1)a few days, until your brother's fury ^(F1)subsides,

until your brother's anger ^(F1)against you subsides and he forgets ^(C1)what you did to him. Then I will send word and get you from there. Why should I lose you both in one day?"

And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of ^(F1)living because of ^(C1)the daughters of Heth; ^(C2)if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"