Genesis 27:42
Good News Translation
But when Rebecca heard about Esau's plan, she sent for Jacob and said, "Listen, your brother Esau is planning to get even with you and kill you.

New Revised Standard Version
But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

Contemporary English Version
When Rebekah found out what Esau planned to do, she sent for Jacob and told him, "Son, your brother Esau is just waiting for a chance to kill you.

New American Bible
When Rebekah got news of what her older son Esau had in mind, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him: “Listen! Your brother Esau intends to get his revenge by killing you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill thee.

comfort himself.

Genesis 37:18-20 And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him: . . .

Genesis 42:21,22 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us. . . .

1 Samuel 30:5 For the two wives also of David were taken captives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

Job 20:12-14 For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue. . . .

Psalm 64:5 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

Proverbs 2:14 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

Proverbs 4:16,17 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. . . .

Context
The Stolen Blessing
41Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob. 42These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill thee.43Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran:…
Cross References
Genesis 27:41
Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran:

Genesis 32:3
And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:

Genesis 32:11
Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.

Genesis 27:41
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