Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,
Parallel translations
- WEB Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;
- KJV And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
- BSB Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
- NKJV And stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away,
- NLT Stay there with him until your brother cools off.
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Quick answer
Rebekah tells Jacob to stay with Laban only "a few days" until Esau's fury subsides.
Overview
Rebekah expects a brief absence, but Jacob's exile will last twenty years and she will likely never see him again. The verse quietly underscores how sin's consequences outrun our expectations; the "few days" stretch into decades of separation. Yet God uses this long sojourn to shape Jacob and build the family of the twelve tribes.
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Cross-references · 2
- Gen 31:38“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
- Gen 31:41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
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