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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 Please accept the present(A) that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me(B) and I have all I need.”(C) And because Jacob insisted,(D) Esau accepted it.

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