Genesis 32:6
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Reversique sunt nuntii ad Jacob, dicentes : Venimus ad Esau fratrem tuum, et ecce properat tibi in occursum cum quadringentis viris.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνέστρεψαν οἱ ἄγγελοι πρὸς Ἰακὼβ λέγοντες Ἤλθομεν πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφόν σου Ἠσαύ, καὶ ἔρχεται εἰς συνάντησίν σοι, καὶ τετρακόσιοι ἄνδρες μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Genesis 32:7
- וַיָּשֻׁ֨בוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים אֶֽל יַעֲקֹ֖ב לֵאמֹ֑ר בָּ֤אנוּ אֶל אָחִ֨יךָ֙ אֶל עֵשָׂ֔ו וְגַם֙ הֹלֵ֣ךְ לִקְרָֽאתְךָ֔ וְאַרְבַּע מֵא֥וֹת אִ֖ישׁ עִמּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Men. Jonathan has Polemarchoi; officers or warriors, either to punish Jacob, (Wisdom x. 12.) as the latter feared, ver. 11; or to do him honour, as Esau protested, chap. xxxiii. 15. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.