Deliver me... from the hand of Esau.

He counts it certain that Esau was marching upon him in order to fulfill the purpose formed twenty years before. His fears might have been due, in part, to his own guilty conscience, for there is no proof that Esau cherished. bloody purpose. Still Jacob seems to have regarded Esau as. man of savage ferocity, ready even to slay "the mother with the children."

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