Genesis 33
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Summary
Esau comes to meet Jacob. When he arrives, Jacob and Esau embrace and Esau forgives Jacob. Jacob gives Esau the gifts he has prepared for him. Jacob and Esau part ways. Jacob journeys to Shalem, and settles in the land of Canaan. He erects an altar to the Lord.
Commentary
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Avram Shannon, “Deferential Speech,” in Old Testament Cultural Insights, ed. Taylor Halverson (Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2022).
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Further Reading
Matthew L. Bowen, “’I Kneeled Down Before My Maker’: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 29–56.
Matthew L. Bowen, “Jacob’s Protector,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 229–256.
Matthew L. Bowen, “’And There Wrestled a Man with Him’ (Genesis 32:24): Enos’s Adaptations of the Onomastic Wordplay of Genesis,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 10 (2014): 151–160.
Jamie J. Huston, “The Integration of Temples and Families: A Latter-day Saint Structure for the Jacob Cycle,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2015): 131–167.
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