Given by: Jacob, answering Rebecca's urgent plan for his flight from Esau's vengeance. Given to: his mother — a son's refusal to save himself at the cost of his father's grief.

In the patriarchal household a son's departure was a formal matter requiring the father's sending; Jubilees heightens Genesis here, adding Jacob's explicit refusal to go unsent — a model of piety for readers tempted to loosen family bonds under foreign customs.

And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother: 'Behold, thou knowest that my father has become old, and does not see because his eyes are dull, and if I leave him it will be evil in his eyes, because I leave him and go away from you, and my father will be angry, and will curse me. I will not go; when he sends me, then only will I go.'

Even with his life under threat, Jacob refuses to leave his blind, aged father without leave: 'I will not go; when he sends me, then only will I go.'

Jubilees 27:6

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour