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29 I have the power[a] to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful[b] that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:29 tn Heb “There is to the power of my hand.”
  2. Genesis 31:29 tn Heb “watch yourself,” which is a warning to be on guard against doing something that is inappropriate.
  3. Genesis 31:29 tn Heb “from speaking with Jacob from good to evil.” The precise meaning of the expression, which occurs only here and in v. 24, is uncertain. See the note on the same phrase in v. 24.