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11 Please take my present[a] that was brought to you, for God has been generous[b] to me and I have all I need.”[c] When Jacob urged him, he took it.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:11 tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.
  2. Genesis 33:11 tn Or “gracious,” but in the specific sense of prosperity.
  3. Genesis 33:11 tn Heb “all.”
  4. Genesis 33:11 tn Heb “and he urged him and he took.” The referent of the first pronoun in the sequence (“he”) has been specified as “Jacob” in the translation for clarity.

11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

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