Footnotes

1. Genesis 32:11 tn The imperative has the force of a prayer here, not a command.
2. Genesis 32:11 tn The “hand” here is a metonymy for “power.”
3. Genesis 32:11 tn Heb “from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau.”
4. Genesis 32:11 tn Heb “for I am afraid of him, lest he come.”
5. Genesis 32:11 sn Heb “me, [the] mother upon [the] sons.” The first person pronoun “me” probably means here “me and mine,” as the following clause suggests.