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So now,וְעַתָּהmy son,בְנִיlistenשְׁמַעto my voice:בְּקֹלִיget up,וְקוּםfleeבְּרַח לְךָto Labanאֶל לָבָןmy brother,אָחִיto Haran,חָרָנָה
Genesis 27:43
Study it in the app“So now, my son, listen to my voice: get up, flee to Laban my brother, to Haran,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 27:43, word by word
- my sonבְנִveni
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “veni” appears- listenשְׁמַעshema
obey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “shema” appears- to my voiceקֹלִkoli
voice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “koli” appears- get upקוּםkum
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appears- fleeבְּרַחberach
flee
To run away to save oneself from a danger or from someone.
Where else “berach” appears- to Labanלָבָןlavan
Laban
Laban, brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel, Jacob's father-in-law, who lived in Haran. Also a place in the wilderness.
Where else “lavan” appears- my brotherאָחִachi
brother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “achi” appears- to Haranחָרָנָcharana
Haran
See it on the mapWhere else “charana” appears
Places in this verse
Haran
Today: Harran, southern Turkey, near Syria
A city in northern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Turkey near the Syrian border.
Abram stopped there with his family and left at seventy-five at God's command (Gen 12:4). Jacob fled there and worked for Laban (Gen 28:10; 29:4).
The context
42The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.
43 · This verse (above)
44and stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away,
To study Genesis 27 in a group
1. What it says
How did Jacob receive Isaac’s blessing, and how did Esau react (vv. 18-34)?
2. What it means
What consequences did Jacob’s deceiving his father bring to the family (vv. 41-45)?
3. How I live it
How can you pursue what you need without resorting to deception?