Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Genesis 27
⁴⁴ Stay there with him until your brother cools off.
⁴⁵ When he calms down and forgets what you have done to him, I will send for you to come back. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick and tired of these local Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.”
Genesis 28
¹ So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.
² Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.
³ May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!
⁴ May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”
⁵ So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
⁶ Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”
⁷ He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram.
⁸ It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.