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Then Isaac told him that it was his brother Jacob who had robbed him,
and Esau replied, "Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold,
now he hath taken away my blessing. Hast thou not reserved a blessing
for me?" And then in the bitterness of his heart he wept.
Moved by Esau's distress, Isaac did bless him, but the promises he made
were different from those he had given Jacob. He told Esau that he
should live by the sword, that he should serve his brother, but that
the time would come when he would break away from his brother's rule.
Esau hated his brother after this and made threats that he would kill
him after their father died. His mother heard of these threats and was
afraid he would carry them out, so she proposed that Jacob should go to
her brother Laban and stay with him until Esau's anger had cooled.
Isaac agreed to this and told him also to choose a wife among Laban's
daughters.
Before Jacob's departure Isaac blessed him, once more telling him that
he and his descendants should have the land which God had promised to
Abraham and his family. So the mother and her favorite son parted.
Their deceit had given Jacob the blessing that should have been Esau's,
but Rebekah was never to see Jacob again.
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