 | Religion - 1993 - 296 pages
...of Nahor" — the God of their father — "judge between us." Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau 32:3 Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,M ^instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant... | |
 | Adele Reinhartz - Religion - 1998 - 239 pages
...and firmness." 18 Both Greene's and Meier's positions have biblical support. In Gen 32:4—5, "Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, instructing them as follows, "Thus shall you say to my lord Esau, 'Thus says your... | |
 | J. Ellsworth Kalas - Religion - 2005 - 156 pages
...happened in the encounter, but only that Jacob said of the place, "This is God's camp," and that he then "sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir" (Gen. 32:1-3). I assume that something about Jacob's experience with the angels convinced him that... | |
 | Maxwell E. Johnson - Religion - 2005 - 2330 pages
...him; and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called that place Mahanaim. Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant... | |
 | James K. Hoffmeier - Bibles - 2005 - 284 pages
...suggests that this territory is one and the same as Edom or is some part of it or adjacent to it: "Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom." Other passages in Genesis demonstrate the correlation of the two: "So Esau settled... | |
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I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight. 