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He said to me, "From Abraham to Isaac, because from him were born Jacob and Esau, for Jacob's hand held Esau's heel from the beginning.
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For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows.
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For the beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek for nothing else, Ezra!"
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I answered and said, "O sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in thy sight,
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show thy servant the end of thy signs which thou didst show me in part on a previous night."
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