Genesis 25:6

25:6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines ¹  and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac. ² 

Genesis 26:31

26:31 Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. ³  Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms. ⁴ 

Genesis 27:40

27:40 You will live by your sword

but you will serve your brother.

When you grow restless,

you will tear off his yoke

from your neck.” ⁵ 

Genesis 29:8

29:8 “We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water ⁶  the sheep.”

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¹ tn Heb “the sons of the concubines who [belonged] to Abraham.”

² tn Heb “And he sent them away from upon Isaac his son, while he was still living, eastward to the land of the east.”

³ tn Heb “and they got up early and they swore an oath, a man to his brother.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they went from him in peace.”

⁵ sn You will tear off his yoke from your neck. It may be that this prophetic blessing found its fulfillment when Jerusalem fell and Edom got its revenge. The oracle makes Edom subservient to Israel and suggests the Edomites would live away from the best land and be forced to sustain themselves by violent measures.

⁶ tn The perfect verbal forms with the vav (ו) consecutive carry on the sequence begun by the initial imperfect form.