Genesis 32:8

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Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people with him, along with the flocks, herds, and camels, into two camps.

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  • Gen 33:1-3 : 1 Jacob looked up and saw Esau approaching with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. 2 He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.

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  • Gen 32:6-7
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    6I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants, and I am sending this message to my lord so that I might find favor in your eyes.

    7The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, 'We went to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you with four hundred men.'

  • Gen 32:16-21
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    16Thirty camels nursing their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.

    17He placed each herd in the care of his servants, and he instructed them, 'Go ahead of me and keep some distance between the herds.'

    18He commanded the one in the lead: 'When my brother Esau meets you and asks,

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    20He also instructed the second, the third, and all those who followed the herds: 'This is what you are to say to Esau when you meet him.'

    21You are to say, 'Your servant Jacob is behind us.' For he thought, 'I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me. After I see him, perhaps he will accept me.'

  • Gen 32:9
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    9He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'

  • Gen 32:11
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    11I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown to your servant. With only my staff, I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

  • Gen 33:1
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    1Jacob looked up and saw Esau approaching with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

  • Gen 33:15
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    15Esau said, 'Let me leave some of my men with you.' But Jacob replied, 'Why do that? If I have found favor in your eyes, let it be as it is.'

  • Gen 32:3-4
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    3When Jacob saw them, he said, 'This is God's camp.' So he named that place Mahanaim (Two Camps).

    4Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

  • Gen 33:8
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    8'What do you mean by all these camps I met?' Esau inquired. Jacob replied, 'To find favor in the eyes of my lord.'

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    42When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.'