[396] Gen. xxxiii. 20.

[397] Jalkut Cadasch, fol. 91, col. 3.

[398] Yaschar, pp. 1167, 1168.

[399] D’ Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale, s. v. Ais, i. p. 142.

[400] This was Sammael, and he complained to God that Jacob had neglected the duty of hospitality, therefore he was suffered to afflict him for a season.

[401] Tabari, i. p. 210.

[402] Targums, i. p. 287.

[403] Tabari, i. p. 211.

[404] Targums, i. p. 288. The account of the sale in Yaschar is very long, and full of details too numerous for insertion here (pp. 1185-8).

[405] Tabari, i. p. 212.