Genesis 27:41

Genesis 27:41. The days of mourning are at hand— In this however he was mistaken, as Isaac lived forty years after: he was also happily prevented from executing his wicked purpose by his mother's care, who sent away her son Jacob to Laban, designing soon to fetch him back from thence, Gen 27:45 though in this she was disappointed, Jacob continuing with Laban above twenty years. She seems to have been a very tender mother, anxious for the welfare of her sons, though most engaged to Jacob, probably by the goodness and humanity of his behaviour, as well as the knowledge she had of the Divine preference of him. Houbigant translates לךֶ מתנחם mithnachem leca, thinks, or meditates concerning thee to kill thee: which he thinks much more natural than doth comfort himself, and which he avers is more agreeable to the Hebrew.