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So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacobput the rods in the roughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them:
4141. 'Let my hand be for God to do you evil!' means a state of anger if it did possess the power. This is clear from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with in 878, 3387. The fact that it is a state of anger in which these words were spoken and which is meant by them is self-evident.
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