Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides

Genesis 27:30-46

After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”

But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”  Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he takes advantage of or he deceives.

His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above. You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides. When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

Why?

Jacob means grasps the heel when he was born; he takes advantage.

The blessing to Esau is as real as the surrounding nation of Israel. They are not as strong as Israel, but they are always living in the war and making trouble for Israel.

Esau married two women of Hittite as wives, and Isaac did not stop Esau's marriage to Hittite women. Now Rebekah hopes Jacob will return to her hometown and marry someone there.

How?

Argument among a family is a disaster, but even though rely on the Lord every disaster may turn to blessing when we go on the way of the Lord.