“but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.””
Malachi 1:3
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What do loved and hated mean here?
Hated here is sane (H8130), and loved in Malachi 1:2 is ahav (H157). Israel's inheritance law uses exactly that pair of words (Deuteronomy 21:15), which helps explain this hard line about Jacob and Esau.
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