Before Jacob left Beersheba for Haran, Isaac did something that could not be undone. He transferred the blessing of Abraham — the promise of land, seed, and covenant — from father to son (Genesis 28:4).
The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan highlights that the blessing is not for Jacob alone. It is for Jacob and his sons with him. The covenant skips forward in the same breath in which it is handed down. Isaac is already thinking about the twelve who will come, and the land they will inherit.
Pay attention to the phrasing: "the land of thy sojourning, which He gave unto Abraham." Abraham never owned Canaan in any legal sense beyond a burial cave at Machpelah. He walked its hills as a guest. Yet the Targum calls it the land God already gave him — because from Heaven's perspective, the deed was signed the day God first spoke to Abraham in Haran (Genesis 12:1). The gift was recorded above before it was realized below.
This is the pattern of every covenantal promise in the Hebrew Bible. It arrives as a word before it arrives as a fact. Abraham received the land as a word. Isaac passed it down as a word. Jacob now carries it as a word into exile, and he will return forty years later to the same hills that were his the whole time he was away.
The takeaway: the covenant travels faster than the footsteps of the one who carries it. Jacob was already home before he left.