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## rescue me ##
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"save me"
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## from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau ##
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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: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] or [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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## I am afraid of him, that he will ##
"I am afraid that he will"
## make you prosper ##
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"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: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
## which cannot be numbered for their number ##
"which you cannot count because of their number"