וַיְצַ֤ו אֹתָם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֣ה תֹאמְר֔וּן לַֽאדֹנִ֖י לְעֵשָׂ֑ו כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ עַבְדְּךָ֣ יַעֲקֹ֔ב עִם־לָבָ֣ן גַּ֔רְתִּי וָאֵחַ֖ר עַד־עָֽתָּה׃
Il leur avait donné cet ordre: "Vous parlerez ainsi à mon seigneur, à Ésaü: ‘Ainsi parle ton serviteur Jacob:
Zohar
Similarly here Jacob meant to say: “Do not pay any regard to the blessing which my father gave, nor imagine that it has been fulfilled in me. For he blessed me saying, ‘be lord over thy brethren’, whereas of a truth ‘I am thy servant Jacob, to my lord Esau’. Again, he blessed me with ‘plenty of corn and wine’, but I have no stock of these, but ‘oxen, and asses and flocks’, and am only a shepherd in the field. Of the blessing ‘of the dew of heaven, and of the fat places of the earth’, nothing has been fulfilled in me, seeing that ‘I have sojourned with Laban’, being merely a sojourner, without so much as a house that I can call my own, let alone the fatness of the earth.” The whole of Jacob’s message was thus calculated to divert Esau’s regard from those blessings, so that he should not quarrel with him over them.’