Genesis 32:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

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  • Gen 32:20 : 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
  • Gen 33:8-9 : 8 And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 ¶ ‹Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.›

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  • Gen 32:17-23
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    82%

    17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?

    18Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob's; it [is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us.

    19And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

    20And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

    21So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

    22And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

    23And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

  • Gen 32:13-15
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    13¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

    14Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

    15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

  • Gen 33:12-15
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    78%

    12And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

    13And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

    14Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

    15And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Gen 30:35-36
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    76%

    35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.

    36And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

  • Gen 30:40
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    40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

  • Gen 32:7-8
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    7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that [was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

    8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

  • Gen 33:8
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    8And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Gen 32:3-5
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    73%

    3¶ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

    4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

    5And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

  • Gen 30:31-32
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    73%

    31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy flock:

    32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

  • Gen 33:1-2
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    1¶ And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

    2And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

  • Gen 45:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23And to his father he sent after this [manner]; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

    24So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

  • Gen 31:17
    72%

    17¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

  • Gen 31:9
    72%

    9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.

  • Num 32:27
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    27But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.

  • Gen 36:7
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    7For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

  • Gen 24:35
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    35And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;