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Then answered I and said, What shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that followeth?
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And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held first the heel of Esau.
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For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.
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The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand: other question, Esdras, ask thou not.
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I answered then and said, O Lord that bearest rule, if I have found favour in thy sight,