Genesis 32:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.

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  • Gen 32:20 : 20 And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.
  • Gen 33:8-9 : 8 And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes. 9 But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

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  • Gen 32:17-23
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    82%

    17And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?

    18Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.

    19And he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see him;

    20And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

    21So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

    22And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

    23He took them and sent them over the stream with all he had.

  • Gen 32:13-15
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    13Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,

    14Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,

    15Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

  • Gen 33:12-15
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    12And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

    13But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

    14Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

    15And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

  • Gen 30:35-36
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    76%

    35So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons;

    36And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.

  • Gen 30:40
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    40These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.

  • Gen 32:7-8
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    7Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;

    8And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

  • Gen 33:8
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    8And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

  • Gen 32:3-5
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    3Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

    4And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:

    5And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

  • Gen 30:31-32
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    73%

    31And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

    32Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

  • Gen 33:1-2
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    1Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.

    2He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

  • Gen 45:23-24
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    23And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

    24And he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them, See that you have no argument on the road.

  • Gen 31:17
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    17Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;

  • Gen 31:9
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    9So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

  • Num 32:27
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    27But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

  • Gen 36:7
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    7For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

  • Gen 24:35
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    35The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;