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Jacob Escapes Esau’s Fury

41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”(A)

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12 We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13 Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.(A) 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.(B) 15 All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.(C)

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But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.(A)

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they spent forty days doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.(A)

When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, “If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows:

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26 Be angry but do not sin;[a] do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not make room for the devil.

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Footnotes

  1. 4.26 Or If you are angry, do not sin

Edom Mistreated His Brother

10 For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    and you shall be cut off forever.(A)
11 On the day that you stood aside,
    on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you, too, were one of them.(B)
12 But you should not have gloated over[a] your brother
    on the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah
    on the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted
    on the day of distress.(C)
13 You should not have entered the gate of my people
    on the day of their calamity;
you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah’s[b] disaster
    on the day of his calamity;
you should not have stolen his goods
    on the day of his calamity.(D)
14 You should not have stood at the crossings
    to cut off his fugitives;
you should not have handed over his survivors
    on the day of distress.

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Heb on the day of
  2. 13 Heb his

Proclamation against Edom

12 Thus says the Lord God: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,(A) 13 therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it humans and animals, and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.(B) 14 I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God.(C)

Proclamation against Philistia

15 Thus says the Lord God: Because with unending hostilities the Philistines acted in vengeance and with malice of heart took revenge in destruction,(D)

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Do not be quick to anger,
    for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.(A)

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14 with perverted mind devising evil,
    continually sowing discord;(A)

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His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.(A)

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

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For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A)

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15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.(A) 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.(B)

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11 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because he pursued his brother with the sword
    and cast off all pity;
he maintained his anger perpetually[b]
    and kept his wrath[c] forever.(A)
12 So I will send a fire on Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.11 Heb cause it to return
  2. 1.11 Syr Vg: Heb and his anger tore perpetually
  3. 1.11 Gk Syr Vg: Heb and his wrath kept

Because you cherished an ancient enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,(A)

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16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood.(A)

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12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.(A)
13 We shall find all kinds of costly things;
    we shall fill our houses with spoil.

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When my spirit is faint,
    you know my way.

In the path where I walk,
    they have hidden a trap for me.(A)

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Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
    protect me from the violent
    who have planned my downfall.(A)
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me,
    and with cords they have spread a net,[a]
    along the road they have set snares for me. Selah(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 140.5 Or they have spread cords as a net

16 Better is a little that the righteous person has
    than the abundance of many wicked.(A)

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12 The wicked plot against the righteous
    and gnash their teeth at them,(A)
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
    for he sees that their day is coming.(B)

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14     as though I grieved for a friend or a brother;
I went about as one who laments for a mother,
    bowed down and in mourning.

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24 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot[a] and brought him to Jerusalem. There he died and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 35.24 Or the chariot of his deputy

28 Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”(A) 29 So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons rose, and each mounted his mule and fled.(B)

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The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended.

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