He said, *Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Avraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives.*
Esav hated Ya`akov because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esav said in his heart, *The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Ya`akov.*
The words of Esav, her elder son, were told to Rivka. She sent and called Ya`akov, her younger son, and said to him, *Behold, your brother Esav comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Then Ya`akov was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beit-Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
They cried to the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Ba`alim and the `Ashtarot: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.