Osee 12:3
In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In utero supplantavit fratrem suum, et in fortitudine sua directus est cum angelo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ ἐπτέρνισεν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν κόποις αὐτοῦ ἐνίσχυσεν πρὸς θεόν,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Osee 12:4
- בַּבֶּ֖טֶן עָקַ֣ב אֶת אָחִ֑יו וּבְאוֹנ֖וֹ שָׂרָ֥ה אֶת אֱלֹהִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Brother Esau, thus foreshewing what would happen, Genesis xxv.
Angel. Septuagint, "God," whose place this angel held. Elohim implies both, ver. 4., and Genesis xxxii. 24.
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.