Esau Plots to Drink Jacob's Blood and Bites Marble

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 133:12

The wicked Esau said: I will not kill Jacob with bow and arrows, but with my mouth and my teeth I will kill him and suck his blood, as it is said "and Esau ran to meet him" (Genesis 33:4). Do not read "and he kissed him" [vayishakehu] but "and he bit him" [vayishakhehu]. And Jacob's neck became like marble, and concerning him Scripture says "your neck is like the tower of ivory" (Song of Songs 7:5). And the teeth of Esau were blunted, and he began to be angry and to grind his teeth, as it is said "the wicked will see and be vexed, he will gnash his teeth and melt away" (Psalms 112:10).

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