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Jacob: Esau Seeks to Kill, Escapes to Padan-Aram Genesis 27:41–46

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” / When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you. / So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

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Jacob: Esau Seeks to Kill, Escapes to Padan-Aram Genesis 28:1–5

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded. / “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. / May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

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Jacob: Esau Seeks to Kill, Escapes to Padan-Aram Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

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