17 Car vous savez que voulant, même après cela, hériter de la bénédiction, il fut rejeté, car il n'obtint pas un changement de résolution, quoiqu'il le demandât avec larmes.
17
Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done.
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