Genesis 32:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

So he deliuered them into the hande of his seruants, euery droue by themselues, and saide vnto his seruants, Passe before me, & put a space betweene droue and droue.

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  • Gen 32:20 : 20 And ye shall say moreouer, Beholde, thy seruant Iaakob commeth after vs (for he thought, I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterwarde I will see his face: it may be that he will accept me.)
  • Gen 33:8-9 : 8 Then he said, What meanest thou by all this droue, which I met? Who answered, I haue sent it, that I may finde fauour in the sight of my lorde: 9 And Esau said, I haue ynough, my brother: keepe that thou hast to thy selfe.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 A good man is mercifull and lendeth, and will measure his affaires by iudgement.
  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God doeth instruct him to haue discretion, and doeth teach him.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you as sheepe in the middes of the wolues: be yee therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doues.

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  • Gen 32:17-23
    7 verses
    82%

    17And he commanded the formost, saying, If Esau my brother meete thee, and aske thee, saying, Whose seruant art thou? And whither goest thou? And whose are these before thee?

    18Then thou shalt say, They be thy seruant Iaakobs: it is a present sent vnto my lord Esau: and beholde, he him selfe also is behinde vs.

    19So likewise commaunded he the seconde and the thirde, and all that followed the droues, saying, After this maner, ye shall speake vnto Esau, when ye finde him.

    20And ye shall say moreouer, Beholde, thy seruant Iaakob commeth after vs (for he thought, I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterwarde I will see his face: it may be that he will accept me.)

    21So went the present before him: but he taried that night with the companie.

    22And he rose vp the same night, and tooke his two wiues, and his two maides, and his eleuen children, and went ouer the forde Iabbok.

    23And he tooke them, and sent them ouer the riuer, and sent ouer that he had.

  • Gen 32:13-15
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    80%

    13And he taryed there the same night, and tooke of that which came to had, a present for Esau his brother:

    14Two hundreth shee goates & twenty hee goates, two hundreth ewes & twentie rammes:

    15Thirtie mylche camels with their coltes, fourtie kine, and ten bullockes, twentie she asses and ten foles.

  • Gen 33:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12And he saide, Let vs take our iourney and go, and I will goe before thee.

    13Then he answered him, My lord knoweth, that the children are tender, & the ewes & kine with yong vnder mine hande: and if they should ouerdriue them one day, all the flocke would die.

    14Let now my lord go before his seruant, & I will driue softly, according to ye pase of ye cattel, which is before me, and as the children be able to endure, vntill I come to my lord vnto Seir.

    15Then Esau said, I will leaue then some of my folke with thee; he answered, what needeth this? let me finde grace in the sight of my lorde.

  • Gen 30:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    35Therefore he tooke out the same day the hee goates that were partie coloured and with great spots, and all the shee goates with litle and great spots, and all that had white in them, and all the blacke among the sheepe, and put them in the keeping of his sonnes.

    36And hee set three dayes iourney betweene himselfe and Iaakob; Iaakob kept the rest of Labans sheepe.

  • Gen 30:40
    74%

    40And Iaakob parted these lambes, and turned the faces of the flocke towardes these lambes partie coloured and all maner of blacke, among the sheepe of Laban: so hee put his owne flockes by themselues, and put them not with Labans flocke.

  • Gen 32:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7Then Iaakob was greatly afraid, and was sore troubled, and deuided the people that was with him, and the sheepe, and the beeues, and the camels into two companies.

    8For he said, If Esau come to ye one copanie and smite it, the other companie shall escape.

  • Gen 33:8
    74%

    8Then he said, What meanest thou by all this droue, which I met? Who answered, I haue sent it, that I may finde fauour in the sight of my lorde:

  • Gen 32:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3Then Iaakob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, vnto the land of Seir into the countrey of Edom:

    4To whom he gaue commandement, saying, Thus shall ye speake to my lorde Esau: thy seruant Iaakob sayeth thus, I haue bene a stranger with Laban, and taried vnto this time.

    5I haue beeues also and Asses, sheepe, & men seruantes, and women seruantes, and haue sent to shew my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

  • Gen 30:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31Then he saide, What shal I giue thee? And Iaakob answered, Thou shalt giue mee nothing at all: if thou wilt doe this thing for mee, I will returne, feede, and keepe thy sheepe.

    32I wil passe through all thy flockes this day, and separate from them all the sheepe with litle spots & great spots, and al blacke lambes among the sheepe, and the great spotted, and litle spotted among the goates: and it shalbe my wages.

  • Gen 30:42
    73%

    42But when the sheepe were feeble, hee put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iaakobs.

  • Gen 33:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And as Iaakob lift vp his eyes, and looked, behold, Esau came, and with him foure hundreth men: and he deuided the children to Leah, and to Rahel, and to the two maides.

    2And he put the maides, and their children formost, and Leah, and her children after, and Rahel, and Ioseph hindermost.

  • Gen 45:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23And vnto his father likewise hee sent ten hee asses laden with the best things of Egypt, and ten shee asses laden with wheate, and bread and meate for his father by the way.

    24So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he sayde vnto them, Fall not out by the way.

  • Gen 31:17
    72%

    17Then Iaakob rose vp, and set his sonnes and his wiues vpon camels.

  • Gen 31:9
    72%

    9Thus hath God taken away your fathers substance, and giuen it me.

  • Num 32:27
    71%

    27But thy seruants will goe euery one armed to warre before the Lorde for to fight, as my lorde saith.

  • Gen 36:7
    71%

    7For their riches were so great, that they could not dwell together, and the lande, wherein they were strangers, coulde not receiue them because of their flockes.

  • Gen 24:35
    71%

    35And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, that he is become great: for he hath giuen him sheepe, and beeues, and siluer, and golde, and men seruants, and maide seruants, and camels, and asses.

  • Gen 45:17
    71%

    17Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,