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Friday, November 8th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Genesis 27:44

Stay with him for a short time until your brother stops being angry.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Family;   Homicide;   Jacob;   Rebekah (Rebecca);  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Birthright;   Esau;   Repentance;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Esau;   Jacob;   Rebekah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Edom, Edomites;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jacob;   Rebekah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Canaan (2);   Nahor;   Rebekah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jacob;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esau;   Rebekah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esau;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away—
Update Bible Version
And tarry with him a few days, until your brother's fury turn away.
New Century Version
Stay with him for a while, until your brother is not so angry.
New English Translation
Live with him for a little while until your brother's rage subsides.
Webster's Bible Translation
And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury shall turn away;
World English Bible
Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
Amplified Bible
"Stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger subsides.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thou schalt dwelle with hym a fewe daies, til the woodnesse of thi brother reste,
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast dwelt with him some days, till thy brother's fury turn back,
Berean Standard Bible
Stay with him for a while, until your brother's fury subsides-
Contemporary English Version
and stay with him for a while. When Esau stops being angry
Complete Jewish Bible
Stay with him a little while, until your brother's anger subsides.
American Standard Version
and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
Bible in Basic English
And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And tary with him awhyle vntyl thy brothers fiercenesse be swaged,
Darby Translation
and abide with him some days, until thy brother's fury turn away—
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
King James Version (1611)
And tary with him a few dayes, vntill thy brothers furie turne away;
King James Version
And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
New Life Bible
Stay with him for a few days, until your brother's anger goes away.
New Revised Standard
and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away—
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, - until that the wrath of thy brother turn away:
Geneva Bible (1587)
And tarie with him a while vntill thy brothers fiercenesse be swaged,
George Lamsa Translation
And stay there a few days, until your brothers fury is spent;
Good News Translation
and stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger cools down
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged,
Revised Standard Version
and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away;
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And dwell with him certain days, until thy brother’s anger
English Revised Version
and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
Christian Standard Bible®
and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides—
Hebrew Names Version
Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
Lexham English Bible
Stay with him a few days until the wrath of your brother has turned—
Literal Translation
And stay with him some days until your brother's fury turns away,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and tary there with him a whyle, tyll the furiousnes of thy brother be swaged, and
New American Standard Bible
"Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury subsides,
New King James Version
And stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away,
New Living Translation
Stay there with him until your brother cools off.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury subsides,
Legacy Standard Bible
Stay with him a few days, until your brother's wrath subsides,

Contextual Overview

41 After that Esau hated Jacob because of this blessing. Esau said to himself, "My father will soon die, and after we are finished with that, I will kill Jacob." 42 Rebekah heard about Esau's plan to kill Jacob. She sent for Jacob and said to him, "Listen, your brother Esau is planning to kill you. 43 So, son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him and hide. 44 Stay with him for a short time until your brother stops being angry. 45 When your brother forgets what you did to him, I will send a servant to bring you back. I don't want to lose both of my sons the same day." 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "Your son Esau married Hittite women. I am very upset about this, because they are not our people. I'll have nothing to live for if Jacob marries one of these women!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a few days: Genesis 31:38

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:25 - and to

Cross-References

Genesis 31:38
I have worked 20 years for you. During all that time none of the baby sheep and goats died during birth. And I have not eaten any of the rams from your flocks.
Genesis 31:41
I worked 20 years like a slave for you. For the first 14 years I worked to win your two daughters. The last six years I worked to earn your animals. And during that time you changed my pay ten times.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And tarry with him a few days,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets a few years; rather, as Hiscuni, one year; perhaps it may be better should it be said one or two years; but instead of so short a time Jacob stayed there twenty years, and perhaps Rebekah never saw him anymore, being dead before he returned; after this account, no more mention is made of her:

until thy brother's fury turn away; which she hoped would abate, subside, and be entirely gone in process of time, and especially when the object of it was out of sight, and so it might be thought would be out of mind.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Isaac Blessing His Sons

The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one years more his son Jacob remains under the paternal roof. The remaining forty-four years are passed in the retirement of old age. The chapter before us narrates the last solemn acts of the middle period of his life.

Genesis 27:1-4

Isaac was old. - Joseph was in his thirtieth year when he stood before Pharaoh, and therefore thirty-nine when Jacob came down to Egypt at the age of one hundred and thirty. When Joseph was born, therefore, Jacob was ninety-one, and he had sojourned fourteen years in Padan-aram. Hence, Jacob’s flight to Laban took place when he was seventy-seven, and therefore in the one hundred and thirty-sixth year of Isaac. “His eyes were dim.” Weakness and even loss of sight is more frequent in Palestine than with us. “His older son.” Isaac had not yet come to the conclusion that Jacob was heir of the promise. The communication from the Lord to Rebekah concerning her yet unborn sons in the form in which it is handed down to us merely determines that the older shall serve the younger. This fact Isaac seems to have thought might not imply the transferrence of the birthright; and if he was aware of the transaction between Esau and Jacob, he may not have regarded it as valid. Hence, he makes arrangements for bestowing the paternal benediction on Esau, his older son, whom he also loves. “I am old.” At the age of one hundred and thirty-six, and with failing sight, he felt that life was uncertain. In the calmness of determination he directs Esau to prepare savory meat, such as he loved, that he may have his vigor renewed and his spirits revived for the solemn business of bestowing that blessing, which he held to be fraught with more than ordinary benefits.

Genesis 27:5-13

Rebekah forms a plan for diverting the blessing from Esau to Jacob. She was within hearing when the infirm Isaac gave his orders, and communicates the news to Jacob. Rebekah has no scruples about primogeniture. Her feelings prompt her to take measures, without waiting to consider whether they are justifiable or not, for securing to Jacob that blessing which she has settled in her own mind to be destined for him. She thinks it necessary to interfere that this end may not fail of being accomplished. Jacob views the matter more coolly, and starts a difficulty. He may be found out to be a deceiver, and bring his father’s curse upon him. Rebekah, anticipating no such issue; undertakes to bear the curse that she conceived would never come. Only let him obey.

Verse 14-29

The plan is successful. Jacob now, without further objection, obeys his mother. She clothes him in Esau’s raiment, and puts the skins of the kids on his hands and his neck. The camel-goat affords a hair which bears a great resemblance to that of natural growth, and is used as a substitute for it. Now begins the strange interview between the father and the son. “Who art thou, my son?” The voice of Jacob was somewhat constrained. He goes, however, deliberately through the process of deceiving his father. “Arise, now, sit and eat.” Isaac was reclining on his couch, in the feebleness of advancing years. Sitting was the posture convenient for eating. “The Lord thy God prospered me.” This is the bold reply to Isaac’s expression of surprise at the haste with which the dainty fare had been prepared. The bewildered father now puts Jacob to a severer test. He feels him, but discerns him not. The ear notes a difference, but the hand feels the hairy skin resembling Esau’s; the eyes give no testimony. After this the result is summarily stated in a single sentence, though the particulars are yet to be given. “Art thou my very son Esau?” A lurking doubt puts the definite question, and receives a decisive answer. Isaac then calls for the repast and partakes.

Genesis 27:26-29

He gives the kiss of paternal affection, and pronounces the benediction. It contains, first, a fertile soil. “Of the dew of heaven.” An abundant measure of this was especially precious in a country where the rain is confined to two seasons of the year. “Of the fatness of the earth;” a proportion of this to match and render available the dew of heaven. “Corn and wine,” the substantial products, implying all the rest. Second, a numerous and powerful offspring. “Let peoples serve thee” - pre-eminence among the nations. “Be lord of thy brethren” - pre-eminence among his kindred. Isaac does not seem to have grasped the full meaning of the prediction, “The older shall serve the younger.” Third, Prosperity, temporal and spiritual. He that curseth thee be cursed, and he that blesseth thee be blessed. This is the only part of the blessing that directly comprises spiritual things; and even this of a special form. It is to be recollected that it was Isaac’s intention to bless Esau, and he may have felt that Esau, after all, was not to be the progenitor of the holy seed. Hence, the form of expression is vague enough to apply to temporal things, and yet sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infliction of the ban of sin, and the diffusion of the blessing of salvation by means of the holy seed.

Genesis 27:30-41

Esau’s blessing. Esau comes in, but it is too late. “Who then?” The whole illusion is dispelled from the mind of Isaac. “Yea, blessed he shall be.” Jacob had no doubt perpetrated a fraud, at the instigation of his mother; and if Esau had been worthy in other respects, and above all if the blessing had been designed for him, its bestowment on another would have been either prevented or regarded as null and void. But Isaac now felt that, whatever was the misconduct of Jacob in interfering, and especially in employing unworthy means to accomplish his end, he himself was culpable in allowing carnal considerations to draw his preference to Esau, who was otherwise unworthy. He knew too that the paternal benediction flowed not from the bias of the parent, but from the Spirit of God guiding his will, and therefore when so pronounced could not be revoked. Hence, he was now convinced that it was the design of Providence that the spiritual blessing should fall on the line of Jacob. The grief of Esau is distressing to witness, especially as he had been comparatively blameless in this particular instance. But still it is to be remembered that his heart had not been open to the paramount importance of spiritual things. Isaac now perceives that Jacob has gained the blessing by deceit. Esau marks the propriety of his name, the wrestler who trips up the heel, and pleads pathetically for at least some blessing. His father enumerates what he has done for Jacob, and asks what more he can do for Esau; who then exclaims, “Hast thou but one blessing?”

Genesis 27:39-41

At length, in reply to the weeping suppliant, he bestows upon him a characteristic blessing. “Away from the fatness.” The preposition (מי mı̂y) is the same as in the blessing of Jacob. But there, after a verb of giving, it had a partitive sense; here, after a noun of place, it denotes distance or separation; for example, Proverbs 20:3 The pastoral life has been distasteful to Esau, and so it shall be with his race. The land of Edom was accordingly a comparative wilderness (Malachi 1:3). “On thy sword.” By preying upon others. “And thy brother shalt thou serve.” Edom was long independent; but at length Saul was victorious over them 1 Samuel 14:47, and David conquered them 2 Samuel 8:14. Then followed a long struggle, until John Hyrcanus, 129 b.c., compelled them to be circumcised and incorporated into Judaism. “Break his yoke.” The history of Edom was a perpetual struggle against the supremacy of Israel. Conquered by Saul, subdued by David, repressed by Solomon, restrained after a revolt by Amaziah, they recovered their independence in the time of Ahab. They were incorporated into the Jewish state, and furnished it with the dynasty of princes beginning with Antipater. Esau was now exasperated against his brother, and could only compose his mind by resolving to slay him during the days of mourning after his father’s death.

Genesis 27:42-46

Rebekah hearing this, advises Jacob to flee to Laban her brother, and await the abatement of his brother’s anger. “That which thou hast done to him.” Rebekah seems not to have been aware that she herself was the cause of much of the evil and of the misery that flowed from it. All the parties to this transaction are pursued by a retributive chastisement. Rebekah, especially, parts with her favorite son to meet him only after an absence of twenty years, if ever in this life. She is moreover grievously vexed with the connection which Esau formed with the daughters of Heth. She dreads a similar matrimonial alliance on the part of Jacob.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Genesis 27:44. Tarry with him a few days — It was probably forty years before he returned, and it is likely Rebekah saw him no more; for it is the general opinion of the Jewish rabbins that she died before Jacob's return from Padan-aram, whether the period of his stay be considered twenty or forty years. Genesis 31:55; Genesis 31:55, &c.


 
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