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## translationWords
* [[en:tw:descendant]]
* [[en:tw:esau]]
* [[en:tw:fear]]
* [[en:tw:hand]]
## translationNotes
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* **rescue me** - "save me"
* **from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau** - Here the word "hand" refers to power. The two phrases mean basically the same thing. The second clarifies that the brother whom Jacob intended was Esau. AT: "from the power of my brother, Esau" or "from my brother, Esau" (See: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism]] or [[en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_metonymy]])
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* **I am afraid of him, that he will** - "I am afraid that he will"
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* **make you prosper ** - "do good to you" or "treat you well."
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* **I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea** - God compared Jacob's descendants to the grains of sand around the sea. This emphasizes the large number of descendants that God will give Jacob. (See: [[en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile]])
* **which cannot be numbered for their number** - "which you cannot count because of their number"