Genesis 32:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then 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;

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  • Gen 35:3 : 3 And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.
  • Exod 14:10 : 10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.
  • Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear. 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me. 5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.
  • Ps 107:6 : 6 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;
  • 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.
  • Ps 142:4 : 4 Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.
  • 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 8:26 : 26 And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life: 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: 10 Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.
  • Gen 32:11 : 11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 32:8
    84%

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

  • Gen 33:1
    78%

    1 Then 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.

  • Gen 32:6
    78%

    6 When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

  • Gen 32:16-23
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    16 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.

    17 And 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?

    18 Then 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.

    19 And 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;

    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.

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

    22 And 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.

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

  • Gen 32:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2 And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.

    3 Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

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

  • Gen 32:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,

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

  • Gen 32:11
    71%

    11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

  • Gen 31:31
    70%

    31 And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.

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

  • Gen 30:42
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    42 But 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 36:6
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    6 Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

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

  • Gen 35:5
    70%

    5 So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.