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