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Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
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Verse 8. Favour. Esau had already heard from the servants. But he asks again, meaning to excuse himself from receiving them. Bible.—This civil and unexpected behaviour, filled the breast of Jacob with such gratitude and love, that he made use of an hyperbole, I have seen, and so forth… of God. Chal. “of a prince,” Syr. “of an angel,” Elohim. See 2 Kennicott. 19:27. Esther 15:16. Calmet.—A little present. Hebrew monee, or mincha, calculated to shew the subjection of the giver. Menochius.
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