Genesis 32:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 33:1-3 : 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. 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back. 3 And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.
  • 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 32:6-7
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    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.

    7 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;

  • Gen 32:16-21
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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.

  • Gen 32:9
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    9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

  • Gen 32:11
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    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 33:1
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    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 33:15
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    15 And 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 32:3-4
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    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 33:8
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    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.

  • Gen 27:42
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    42 Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death.