And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
Words of Esau ... were told to Rebekah. Poor woman, she now early begins to reap the bitter fruits of her fraudulent device; she is obliged to part with her son for whom she planned it, never, probably, seeing him again; and he (Jacob) felt the retributive justice of heaven fall upon him heavily in his own future family.
Why should I be deprived ... of you both? This refers to the law of the Go'el (H1352), by which the nearest of kin would be obliged to avenge the death of Jacob upon his brother.