And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
Jacob had obtained by deceiving his father the blessing intended for Esau, and this provoked Esau's deadly anger and his threat to kill him. To escape that wrath Jacob had to flee for his life from his father's home as a fugitive. He left carrying Isaac's blessing and traveling to Mesopotamia to seek a wife from his mother's family.
Rebekah told him to stay with her brother for a short time, only a few days, until Esau's fury turned away and his anger subsided. What was meant as a brief absence became an exile of many years. That flight separated him from Rebekah forever, for she never saw his face again.
When Jacob later returned at God's command, Esau's approach with warriors revived his fear of revenge. Rebekah repented in bitterness for her wrong counsel to Jacob because it had caused this lasting separation. Isaac lived many years after giving the blessing to Jacob and became convinced, from the later course of Esau and Jacob, that the blessing rightly belonged to Jacob.
The deception connected with this sending away was carried out by partiality and hypocrisy and secret working and deceptive reasoning. It perverts right principles by selfishness and covetousness to grasp all that can possibly be gained, irrespective of agreements and of the disappointment and wrong brought upon others, handling men as machinery and ruling as a lord over God's heritage. Such dealing God will not tolerate, justify, or excuse, and angels veil their faces at it.
Jacob had obtained by deceiving his father the blessing intended for Esau, and this provoked Esau's deadly anger and his threat to kill him. To escape that wrath Jacob had to flee for his life from his father's home as a fugitive. He left carrying Isaac's blessing and traveling to Mesopotamia to seek a wife from his mother's family.
Rebekah told him to stay with her brother for a short time, only a few days, until Esau's fury turned away and his anger subsided. What was meant as a brief absence became an exile of many years. That flight separated him from Rebekah forever, for she never saw his face again.
When Jacob later returned at God's command, Esau's approach with warriors revived his fear of revenge. Rebekah repented in bitterness for her wrong counsel to Jacob because it had caused this lasting separation. Isaac lived many years after giving the blessing to Jacob and became convinced, from the later course of Esau and Jacob, that the blessing rightly belonged to Jacob.
The deception connected with this sending away was carried out by partiality and hypocrisy and secret working and deceptive reasoning. It perverts right principles by selfishness and covetousness to grasp all that can possibly be gained, irrespective of agreements and of the disappointment and wrong brought upon others, handling men as machinery and ruling as a lord over God's heritage. Such dealing God will not tolerate, justify, or excuse, and angels veil their faces at it.