Genesis 32:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.

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  • Gen 33:1 : 1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau came with four hundred men. So he divided the children to Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
  • Gen 27:40-41 : 40 And by your sword you shall live, and shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck. 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.
  • Gen 32:8 : 8 And said, If Esau comes to one group and attacks it, then the other group which is left shall escape.
  • Gen 32:11 : 11 Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and attack me, and the mother with the children.

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  • Gen 33:1
    82%

    1And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau came with four hundred men. So he divided the children to Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

  • Gen 32:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

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

    4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you speak to my lord Esau; Your servant Jacob says this, I have lived with Laban, and stayed there until now:

    5And I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.

  • Gen 32:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, herds, and camels, into two groups;

    8And said, If Esau comes to one group and attacks it, then the other group which is left shall escape.

  • Gen 32:17-20
    4 verses
    77%

    17And he commanded the first, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Whose are you? and where are you going? and whose are these ahead of you?

    18Then you shall say, They are your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau: and behold, he is also behind us.

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

    20And say moreover, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.

  • Gen 33:8
    74%

    8And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Gen 33:15
    72%

    15And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, What need is there? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Gen 33:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4And Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.

    5And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.

  • Gen 32:14
    71%

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

  • Gen 42:29
    71%

    29And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them; saying,