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Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources

Note 389 — XXVII. ESAU AND JACOB.

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Jacob prepared three things against Esau—War, Gifts, and Prayer—as a token to all men that they must overcome evil by Resistance, by Alms, and by Supplication. (R. Bechai, Comm. on the Five Books of Moses, fol. 42, col. 4.)

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