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P166 Parash 8 Vayishlach (He sent) B’resheet/ Genesis 32:4-36:43
B’resheet/ GENESIS 33
In this chapter we find Esav meeting Ya’akov in a friendly manner, contrary to
his fears and expectation, having set his family in order in case of the worst,
Gen_33:1; putting questions to Ya’akov concerning the women and children
with him, who make their obeisance to him as Ya’akov had done before,
Gen_33:5; and concerning the drove he met, which was a present to him, and
which he refused at first to take, but at the urgency of Ya’akov accepted of it,
Gen_33:8; proposing to travel with him, unto which Ya’akov desired to be
excused, he, with the women, children, and flocks, not being able to keep pace
with him, Gen_33:12, and to leave some of his men with him to guard him,
which Ya’akov judged unnecessary, upon which they parted friendly, Gen_33:15;
and the chapter is concluded with an account of Ya’akov's journey, first to
Succoth, then to Shalem, where he pitched his tent, bought a field and built an
altar, Gen_33:17. |