And the mystery of the matter: (Is. 63:4) For a day of revenge is in my heart, surely incorporated in the Middle Pillar, for the positive precepts were given from the right-hand, and negative precepts from the left-hand, and these are the cantillation note: trei ta’amei ֦∞two-notes. And the positive precepts, are the ‘foods’ of the blessed Holy One, while the negative precepts, are the sustenance of Samael, to one who transgresses them.
[And these did he offer] [Var. introduce] [Var. and with these was brought close] Esau to Isaac, and he said to him: (Gen. 27:31)... Let my father arise, and eat from the hunt of his son... And Samael, because of him, introduced [Var. offered] to the left, to give to taste to the blessed Holy One of the sins of his son, which are the ‘bitter foods’, because of which, it is written: (Mal. 1:3) And Esau I hated...