“After Jacob and Laban had parted from each other, "angels of God met Jacob" to make known to him that if Laban did not obey God, who had appeared to him in the evening, he and those with him would be destroyed at dawn by the hands of those angels who protect Jacob. Just as God had shown Jacob the angels that accompani…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 30:1
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1And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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— Genesis 32:1 —
2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.