diff --git a/gen/32/04.md b/gen/32/04.md index 9f2bef1c40..b2cd7f77b6 100644 --- a/gen/32/04.md +++ b/gen/32/04.md @@ -1,12 +1,4 @@ # This is what you will say to my master Esau: This is what your servant Jacob says: 'I have been ... have delayed my return until now. -This has a quotation within a quotation. The direct quotation can be stated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "'This is what I want you to tell my master Esau. Tell him that I have been ... have delayed my return until now.'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]]) - -# my master Esau - -Jacob is using polite language and refers to his brother as "my master." - -# your servant Jacob - -Jacob is using polite language and refers to himself as "your servant." +"'This is what I want you to tell my master Esau. Tell him that I have been ... have delayed my return until now.'"