Genesis 27:44

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

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  • Gen 31:38 : 38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
  • Gen 31:41 : 41 This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

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  • 45 Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

  • Gen 27:40-43
    4 verses
    78%

    40 You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

    41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

    42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

    43 Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

  • 55 But Rebekah’s brother and her mother replied,“Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”

  • Gen 44:32-34
    3 verses
    73%

    32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

    33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

    34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

  • 23 But you said to your servants,‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

  • 13 Take your brother too, and go right away to the man.

  • 14 Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

  • 23 So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 31:27-30
    4 verses
    71%

    27 Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

    28 You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren goodbye. You have acted foolishly!

    29 I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

    30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

  • 19 Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

  • 2 Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

  • 24 Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them,“As you travel don’t be overcome with fear.”

  • Gen 44:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

    30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

  • 20 You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”

  • 4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

  • 38 But Jacob replied,“My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”

  • 3 But Judah said to him,“The man solemnly warned us,‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

  • 1 The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

  • 11 I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’

  • 41 You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’

  • 27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.

  • 20 But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.

  • 33 “Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us,‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

  • 27 Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

  • 3 The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

  • 4 He commanded them,“This is what you must say to my lord Esau:‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.