Now then, my son, do what I say: flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. The instruction to flee is the emergency response to the emergency produced by the deception. Rebekah sends Jacob to the same family that supplied her — she is now routing the next generation of the covenant through Laban's household. The application: the consequences of the deception are now shaping the trajectory of the next twenty years of Jacob's life. The flight to Harran is the first in a long chain of consequences.

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