1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Hosea 12:3

*In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.

Genesis 25:25.; Genesis 32:24.

Brother Esau, thus foreshewing what would happen, Genesis xxv. --- Angel. Septuagint, "God," whose place this angel held. Elohim implies both, ver. 4., and Genesis 32:24.