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Gen.27:11. “Here is my brother Esau, a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.” Where we read "hairy", the Hebrew text says seir (שָׂעִ ֔ ר). From this, the mountains and the region in which Esau lived were subsequently named Seir. I talked about this above. Gen.27:15. “And Rebekah took the clothes of her eldest son Esau, which were very beloved in her house.” Regarding this verse, the Jews maintain a tradition that the firstborn sons performed priestly duties and had sacred clothing. Dressed in it, they made sacrifices to God even before Aaron was chosen for priestly service. Gen.27:36. “And Esau said: He is rightly called by the name Jacob, because he has tripped me up for the second time.” Jacob is translated as "one who sets one's foot." Thus, since Jacob deceived his brother through cunning, he thereby made an allusion to his name. Before that, he was named Jacob because at birth he grabbed his brother’s leg. Gen.27:40. “And you will serve your brother. And the time will come when you will remove and untie his yoke from your neck.” This means that the Edomites will be subject to the Jews and the time will come when the Edomites will throw off the yoke of slavery and resist the power of the Jews. And among the Seventy interpreters who said: “But it will happen when you remove and unharness the yoke from your neck, [then] ...,” it seems that the sentence hung in the air and was not completed 46. Blessed Jerome's remark concerns criticism of the Veteris Latinae rather than the Septuagint. In a sentence ἀπὸ τοῦ τραχήλου σου difficulty in understanding can arise due to the word ἐάν (εἰ ἄν), which in the Koine dialect can often act simply as the equivalent of the particle ἄν in combination with the conjunctive to convey iterativeness or futurity in subordinate clauses (in this case, after the conjunction ἡνίκα). Wed: ἡν ί κα δὲ ἐὰν ἐπιστρέψ ῃ πρὸς κύριον, περιαιρεῖται τὸ κάλυμμα (2 Cor. 3:16); καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν θέλω δ ί δωμι αὐτ ή ν (Luke 4:6). But in the passage from the translation of Vetus Latina cited by the Holy Father, the sentence is actually unfinished: “Erit autem cum deposueris, et solveris iugum de collo tuo...”. In a complex sentence with a temporary clause introduced by the conjunction cum and having a predicate in the second future tense, the main clause (erit autem) is devoid of a subject. It remains unclear what exactly “will be.”