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OET (OET-LV) And_DOM ˊĒsāv I_hated and_turned DOM mountains_his a_waste and_DOM inheritance_his to_jackals of_[the]_wilderness.
OET (OET-RV) and rejected Esaw. I’ve turned the hills where Esaw lived into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild jackals.”
עֵשָׂ֖ו שָׂנֵ֑אתִי
ˊĒsāv hated
Here hated implies that there was no covenant between Yahweh and Esau. However, it does not imply that Yahweh was emotionally against Esau.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
עֵשָׂ֖ו
ˊĒsāv
This name Esau refers here not only to Esau, but also to all his descendants.
אֶת־הָרָיו֙
DOM mountains,his
This refers to the hill country of Edom.
וְאֶת־נַחֲלָת֖וֹ לְתַנּ֥וֹת מִדְבָּֽר
and=DOM and=DOM inheritance,his to,jackals wilderness
In the Old Testament, the presence of wild animals such as jackals was a frequent description of land deserted by the people who once lived there.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
נַחֲלָת֖וֹ
inheritance,his
Here inheritance stands for the region that Esau’s descendants, the nation of Edom, occupied.
1:3 rejected (literally hated, the antonym of loved in 1:2): Love and hate form a polar word pair in Old Testament legal and prophetic texts (see Deut 7:9-10; Amos 5:15), often used to describe the alienation of a broken covenant relationship. Here, God says that he rejected Esau (and his descendants, the Edomites). Esau had despised and rejected covenant relationship with the Lord (see Gen 25:34; 26:34-35).
• Esau was the ancestor of the Edomite nation, and his inheritance, the territory of Edom, was located on the southeastern rim of the Dead Sea. The mention of Jacob and Esau calls to mind the twin brothers’ rivalry (Gen 25:23-26).
OET (OET-LV) And_DOM ˊĒsāv I_hated and_turned DOM mountains_his a_waste and_DOM inheritance_his to_jackals of_[the]_wilderness.
OET (OET-RV) and rejected Esaw. I’ve turned the hills where Esaw lived into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild jackals.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.