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3 8 : E S A U ’ S
CHAPTER 38:
The War Between Jacob
And Esau At The Tower
of Hebron. The Death Of
Esau And Overthrow Of
His Forces (38:1-4)
1 And after that Judah spake
to Jacob, his father, and said
unto him: “Bend thy bow,
father, and send forth thy
arrows and cast down the
adversary and slay the enemy;
and mayest thou have the
power, for we shall not slay
thy brother, for he is such as
thou, and he is like thee: let
us give him (this) honour.”
2 Then Jacob bent his bow
and sent forth the arrow and
struck Esau, his brother, (on
his right breast) and slew him.
3 And again he sent forth an
Cf. 37:9 arrow and struck ’Adôrân the
Aramaean, on the left breast,
and drove him backward and
slew him. 4 And then went
forth the sons of Jacob, they
and their servants, dividing
themselves into companies
on the four sides of the tower.
5 And Judah went forth in
front, and Naphtali and Gad
with him and fifty servants
with him on the south side of
the tower, and they slew all
they found before them, and
not one individual of them
D E A T H
escaped. 6 And Levi and Dan
and Asher went forth on the
east side of the tower, and fifty
(men) with them, and they
slew the fighting men of Moab
and Ammon. 7 And Reuben
and Issachar and Zebulon
went forth on the north side
of the tower, and fifty men
with them, and they slew the
fighting men of the Philistines.
8 And Simeon and Benjamin
and Enoch, Reuben’s son,
went forth on the west side
of the tower, and fifty (men)
with them, and they slew of
Edom and of the Horites four
hundred men, stout warriors;
and six hundred fled, and four
of the sons of Esau fled with
city in
them, and left their father AIdumaea
lying slain, as he had fallen on (Edom)
identical with
“Adora”
the hill which is in ’Adûrâm. the
mentioned in
9 And the sons of Jacob 1 Macc. 8:20
pursued after them to the
mountains of Seir. And Jacob
buried his brother on the hill
which is in ’Adûrâm, and he
returned to his house. 10 And
the sons of Jacob pressed
hard upon the sons of Esau
in the mountains of Seir, and
bowed their necks so that they
became servants of the sons
of Jacob. 11 And they sent
to their father (to inquire)
whether they should make
peace with them or slay them.
12 And Jacob sent word to his
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