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Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. See also: Genesis 32:6-7Genesis 27:41-42Genesis 32:16He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. See also: Genesis 30:22-24Genesis 29:30Genesis 37:3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. See also: Genesis 42:6Genesis 18:2Luke 14:11Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. See also: Genesis 45:14-15Psalms 34:4Luke 15:20He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” See also: Psalms 127:3Isaiah 8:18Genesis 48:9Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.” See also: Genesis 32:5Esther 2:17Genesis 39:5Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.” See also: Genesis 27:39Philemon 1:7Genesis 4:9Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. See also: Job 33:26Revelation 22:4Genesis 32:30Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it. See also: Philippians 4:181 Samuel 25:272 Kings 5:23Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.” Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. See also: Isaiah 40:11Ezekiel 34:15-16Proverbs 12:10Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.” See also: Genesis 32:3Isaiah 40:11Romans 15:1Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.” See also: Ruth 2:13Genesis 34:11Genesis 47:25So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. See also: Joshua 13:27Psalms 60:6Judges 8:5Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city. See also: Acts 7:16Judges 9:1Joshua 24:1He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. See also: John 4:5Acts 7:16Joshua 24:32He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel. See also: Genesis 21:33Genesis 35:7Genesis 32:28
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 33:3
Ver. 3. Forward, before his family; like a good father, exposing himself to the greatest danger. M. --- Seven times, to testify his great humility and respect for his brother. How, then, can any one find fault with Catholics, if they bow down before the cross thrice on Good Friday, to testify their great veneration for their expiring Lord?
↑ 3Genesis 33:8
Ver. 8. Favour. Esau had already heard from the servants. But he asks again, meaning to excuse himself from receiving them.
H. --- This civil and unexpected behaviour, filled the breast of Jacob with such gratitude and love, that he made use of an hyperbole, I have seen, &c. ...of God. Chal. "of a prince," Syr.
"of an angel," Elohim. See 2 K. xix. 27. Est. xv. 16. C. --- A little present. Heb. monee, or mincha, calculated to shew the subjection of the giver. M.
↑ 8Genesis 33:13
Ver. 13. Young, boves fœtus, giving milk, having calved lately, Sept. Bochart. C.
↑ 13Genesis 33:14
Ver. 14. In Seir; not immediately, but as soon as it might be convenient. This time perhaps never arrived. S. Aug. q. 106.
↑ 14Genesis 33:18
Ver. 18. The town of Salem, which was the first town of Chanaan that he came near after his return. It was afterwards called Sichem, and Sichar. J. iv. 5. and Naplosa. Salim, mentioned John ii . 23, was probably more to the east. Some translate, "He came quite sound to the city of Sichem;" where, Demetrius says, he dwelt ten years, Eus. præp. ix. 21, having stopped at Socoth six months. C. --- This seems very probable, as Dina met with her misfortune a little before he left the country; and as she was six years old when she came from Haran, she would be about 15 when she began to go a visiting,
&c. C. xxxiv. 1. H.
↑ 18Genesis 33:19
Ver. 19. Lambs. Heb. Kossite, or Kesita, a word which occurs also, Jos. xxvi. 32, and Job xlii. 11; and may signify lambs, or a species of money, marked perhaps with their figure. It may also denote pearls, coral, a vessel, or purse of good money. S.
Stephen, Acts vii. 19. mentions the price of money. But he probably speaks of the bargain made by Abraham with Ephron, son of Heth, for which some have substituted Hemor, the son of Sichem. Kista in the Chal. means a vessel or measure; and we learn from Herodotus i i. 130, that the Persians were accustomed to keep their money in this manner. In the Chal.
Syr. and Arabic languages, there are words derived from the same root as Kesita, which mean purity, perfection; and thus what Jacob gave was good current money; (C.) or such things as we received among merchants.
↑ 19Genesis 33:20
Ver. 20. The most, &c. El Elohe Yisrael. By this name he dignified the altar, consecrating his field and all his possessions to God, and acknowledging that all was his gift. H.
↑ 20License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses