OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 32:6

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The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

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Verse 6. Men. Jonathan has Polemarchoi; officers or warriors, either to punish Jacob, (Wisd. 10:12) as the latter feared, verse 11; or to do him honour, as Esau protested. Calmet. 33:15. Calmet.

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