Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
He urged him and he took it—In the East the acceptance by a superior is a proof of friendship, and by an enemy, of reconciliation. It was on both accounts Jacob was so anxious that his brother should receive the cattle; and in Esau's acceptance he had the strongest proofs of a good feeling being established that Eastern notions admit of.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 33:11:
Genesis 33:1
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