Genesis 27:45

עַד־שׁוּב אַף־אָחִיךָ מִמְּךָ וְשָׁכַח אֵת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂיתָ לּוֹ וְשָׁלַחְתִּי וּלְקַחְתִּיךָ מִשָּׁם לָמָה אֶשְׁכַּל גַּם־שְׁנֵיכֶם יוֹם אֶחָֽד׃

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Hebrew

עַד־שׁ֨וּב אַף־אָחִ֜יךָ מִמְּךָ֗ וְשָׁכַח֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתָ לּ֔וֹ וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֖י וּלְקַחְתִּ֣יךָ מִשָּׁ֑ם לָמָ֥ה אֶשְׁכַּ֛ל גַּם־שְׁנֵיכֶ֖ם י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

Greek (Septuagint)

ἕως τοῦ ἀποστρέψαι τὸν θυμὸν καὶ τὴν ὀργὴν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου ἀπὸ σοῦ, καὶ ἃ πεποίηκας αὐτῷ· καὶ ἀποστείλασα μεταπέμψομαί σε ἐκεῖθεν, μή ποτε ἀτεκνωθῶ ἀπὸ τῶν δύο ὑμῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

et cesset indignatio ejus, obliviscaturque eorum quæ fecisti in eum: postea mittam, et adducam te inde huc: cur utroque orbabor filio in uno die?

Spanish

Cuando se calme su ira y olvide lo que le has hecho, yo mandaré a buscarte. ¿Por qué habría de perderlos a los dos en un solo día?”

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Hasta que se aplaque la ira de tu hermano contra ti, y se olvide de lo que le has hecho: yo enviaré entonces, y te traeré de allá: ¿ por qué seré privada de vosotros ambos en un día?

English

until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

✦ What the text says

Summary

Rebekah tells Jacob to remain away until his brother's anger subsides, promising to send for him once Esau forgets what was done to him. She closes with a rhetorical question expressing fear of losing both sons in a single day.

Key words

shuv ("turns back", H7725I) — qal infinitive functioning as a temporal clause head after 'ad ("until", H5704): "until the turning back of..."
'af ("anger of", H0639G) — masculine singular construct, grammatically bound to 'aChi ("brother", H0251G) + suffix "your," forming "the anger of your brother."
shaKhach ("he will forget", H7911) — qal sequential perfect (vav + perfect continuing a future sequence begun by the infinitive clause), indicating a following action once the anger subsides.
'eshKal ("will I be bereaved", H7921A) — qal imperfect, first person, expressing an ongoing/future hypothetical state introduced by lamah ("why?", H4100).
'eChad ("one", H0259) — cardinal number, feminine singular, modifying yom ("a day", H3117G), a masculine noun; the numeral agrees in the customary Hebrew pattern for "one day" despite the gender difference in form.

What the text says

The verse opens with a temporal clause built on the preposition 'ad ("until") plus the infinitive shuv ("turns back"), governing the construct phrase 'af-'aChika ("the anger of your brother"). This construction places the turning of the anger, not the brother himself, as the grammatical subject of the "returning." The clause continues with two sequential perfects, shaKhach ("he will forget") and later shalachTi / lekachTi ("I will send" / "I will fetch"), a common Hebrew narrative chain where each vav-perfect verb picks up the temporal frame set by the initial infinitive, producing a sequence: "until he turns back... and forgets... [then] I will send and fetch you from there."

The final sentence shifts into direct rhetorical speech, introduced by lamah ("why?"), with the imperfect 'eshkal ("will I be bereaved") expressing a feared future state. The object of the fear is gam-sheney khem ("also both of you"), using the dual-marked construct sheney ("two of") plus the second-person plural suffix, and closing with yom 'eChad ("one day"), where the numeral 'eChad is feminine while yom is masculine — a common Hebrew agreement pattern for cardinal "one" with certain nouns.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the single Hebrew noun 'af ("anger") with two Greek terms, thymos ("wrath") and orge ("anger"), where the Hebrew has one construct noun. The Vulgate adds "huc" ("to this place") in "adducam te inde huc," a locative detail not present in the Hebrew clause, which only has misham ("from there", H8033G) without a corresponding "to here."

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.