We searched all of Scripture and did not find that... (חָזַרְנוּ עַל כָּל הַמִּקְרָא וְלֹא מָצִינוּ ש...)
We searched all of Scripture and did not find that... (חָזַרְנוּ עַל כָּל הַמִּקְרָא וְלֹא מָצִינוּ ש...)

We searched all of Scripture and did not find that...

We went back and checked the entire Tanakh and did not discover that...

(Rabbi Abbahu said: "We searched all of Scripture and did not find that our father Jacob ever went to Esau at Mount Seir in his lifetime. Could Jacob, the true one, have been deceiving him? When, then, was it? He will come to him in the future, as it is written (Obadiah 1): 'And saviors shall ascend Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau'" — Genesis Rabbah (Vilna), Parashat Vayishlach, section 78.)

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חָזַרְנוּ עַל כָּל הַמִּקְרָא וְלֹא מָצִינוּ ש...

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חָזַרְנוּ וּבָדַקְנוּ בְּכָל הַתָּנָ"ךְ וְלֹא גִּילִּינוּ ש...

("אָמַר ר' אָבָהוּ חָזַרְנוּ עַל כָּל הַמִּקְרָא וְלֹא מָצָאנוּ שֶׁהָלַךְ יַעֲקֹב אָבִינוּ אֵצֶל עֵשָׂו לְהַר שָׂעִיר מִיָּמָיו, אֶפְשָׁר יַעֲקֹב אֲמִתִּי הָיָה וּמְרַמֶּה בּוֹ, אֶלָּא אֵימָתַי הָיָה? הוּא בָּא אֶצְלוֹ לֶעָתִיד לָבֹא, הֲדָא הוּא דִכְתִיב (עוֹבַדְיָה א) וְעָלוּ מוֹשִׁעִים בְּהַר צִיּוֹן לִשְׁפֹּט אֶת הַר עֵשָׂו"- בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה (וִילְנָא) פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּשְׁלַח פָּרָשָׁה עח)

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