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Then you shall say, `They are your servant, Jacob`s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.`"
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The Language of Humility
Commentators note the deliberate humility in Jacob's instructed message. By referring to himself as 'your servant' and Esau as 'my lord,' Jacob models a practical step toward reconciliation. His words, combined with the gift, were designed to show honor and appease the brother he had wronged.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Genesis 32:3: מחנים machănāyı̂m — Machanaim, “two camps.”
Genesis 32:22: יבק yaboq
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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Baptist
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then you shall say, [they are] your servant Jacob's. Both the goats before them, and they themselves that had the care of…
Times of fear should be times of prayer: whatever causes fear, should drive us to our knees, to our God. Jacob had lately seen his guards of angels…
