Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- KJV Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
- BSB So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
- NASB Now then, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!
- NLT So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.
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Quick answer
Rebekah urges Jacob to flee to her brother Laban in Haran to escape Esau's murderous anger over the stolen blessing.
Overview
Following Jacob's deception, Esau resolves to kill him, so Rebekah counsels flight to her family in distant Haran. Her plan to protect Jacob also, unknowingly, sets the stage for God to fulfill the promise of a wife from Abraham's kindred and the long discipline Jacob will undergo. God's purposes advance even through human fear and family fracture.
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- Gen 27:8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
- Gen 11:31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
- Gen 27:13His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
- Gen 24:29Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
- Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
- Gen 12:4–5So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
- Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
- Gen 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
- Jer 35:14“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.
- Gen 28:10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
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